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Life-long training (in-service training)

• Increasing skilled birth attendance through midwifery workforce management
  Article published in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management
  1 March 2013
• Working for Health Equity: The Role of Health Professionals
  Healthcare system and workforce’s role in reducing health inequalities through action on the social determinants of health.
  1 March 2013
• E-learning in medical education in resource constrained low- and middle-income countries
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:4 (4 February 2013)
  1 February 2013
• The Global Health Workforce Alliance Strategy 2013-2016
  Advancing the Health Workforce Agenda within Universal Health Coverage
  1 September 2012
• HRH professional short courses at IIHD, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 2012/2013
  HRH professional short courses at IIHD, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 2012/2013
  1 September 2012
• Keeping Up to Date: Continuing Professional Development for Health Workers in Developing Countries
  CapacityPlus Technical Brief #6
  1 September 2012
• A narrative review on the effect of economic downturns on the nursing labour market: implications for policy and planning
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:23 (20 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• Ten years of health workforce planning in the Netherlands: a tentative evaluation of GP planning as an example
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:21 (13 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• A systematic review of the effectiveness of alternative cadres in community based rehabilitation
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:20 (13 August 2012)
  1 August 2012
• Building an Effective Workforce: A Systematic Review of Public Health Workforce Literature
  Article published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012, Volume 42, Issue 5, Supplement 1, May 2012, Pages S6–S16
  1 May 2012
• Public Health Workforce Research in Review : A 25-Year Retrospective
  Article published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012,Volume 42, Issue 5, Supplement 1, May 2012, Pages S17–S28
  1 May 2012
• The effects of midwives' job satisfaction on burnout, intention to quit and turnover: a longitudinal study in Senegal
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:9 (30 April 2012)
  1 May 2012
• A survey of Sub-Saharan African medical schools
  Article published in Human Resources for Health online journal, 2012
  1 March 2012
• Masters Nursing Students' Perceptions of an Innovative Simulation Education Experience
  Article Published by Elsevier Inc.
  18 January 2012
• Human resources for mental health care: current situation and strategies for action
  This is the fifth in a Series of six papers about global mental health
  1 December 2011
• Tanzanian lessons in using non-physician clinicians to scale up comprehensive emergency obstetric care in remote and rural areas
  Article published on the Human Resources for Health journal
  1 December 2011
• State of Maternity Services Report
  Royal College of Midwives report, 2011
  1 December 2011
• A rapid assessment of utilization, effectiveness a added value of the knowledge centres at Bishoftu and Durame hospitals in Ethiopia
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, case study
  1 December 2011
• Educating a New Generation of Doctors to Improve the Health of Populations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  A new study points out to the pressing need of a transformation of medical education among poor countries.
  20 October 2011
• Health Service Academy Post Graduate certificate in Human Resources for Health Management Summary Report
  HRH Management course summary report, 2011
  1 October 2011
• Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education - Webinars
  Distance Education Grand Rounds Series
  1 September 2011
• HENNESSY-HICKS TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE AND MANUAL
  Training assessment tool
  13 June 2011
• Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
  Joint Statement by the Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO, IFRC, UNICEF, UNHCR
  1 June 2011
• Progress report on the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
  Reviewing Progress, Renewing Commitment.
  24 January 2011
• Presenting the upcoming State of the World’s Midwifery report
  Fact sheets
  10 January 2011
• Mid-level health providers a promising resource to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, Report
  30 December 2010
• Chances for Change
  Wemos Foundation, Report
  30 December 2010
• Global Experience of Community Health Workers for Delivery of Health Related Millennium Development Goals: A Systematic Review, Country Case Studies, and Recommendations for Integration into National Health Systems
  Alliance document
  14 October 2010
• MeduProf-S Academy: on-line learning environment
  Meduprof-S / E-learning
  15 September 2010
• Case Study: Scaling Up Education and Training of Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia. Moving towards achieving the MDGs.
  Case Study
  26 February 2010
• Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Health workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Nurse versus doctor management of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (CIPRA-SA): a randomized non-inferiority trial
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Preventive staff-support interventions for health workers
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Factors affecting recruitment and retention of community health workers in a newborn care intervention in Bangladesh
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Women on the front lines of health care. State of the World's Mothers 2010
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Effective scale-up: avoiding the same old traps
  Article
  1 January 2009
• Programme evaluation training for health professionals in francophone Africa: process, competence acquisition and use
  Article
  1 January 2009
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  World Health Organization, background paper
  1 January 2009
• Provision of abortion by mid-level providers: international policy, practice and perspectives
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2009
• A cost-effectiveness study of caesarean-section deliveries by clinical officers, general practitioners and obstetricians in Burkina Faso
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Worker Retention in Human Resources for Health: Catalyzing and Tracking Change
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Competency Gaps in Human Resource Management in the Health Sector: An Exploratory Study in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• A cross-country review of strategies of the German development cooperation to strengthen human resources.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Burnout and use of HIV services among health care workers in Lusaka District, Zambia: a cross-sectional study
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health. Country Profile, Malawi
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Profil en Ressources Humaines en Santé République Islamique de Mauritanie
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Sudan
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, The Gambia
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Uganda
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Leveraging human capital to reduce maternal mortality in India: enhanced public health system or public-private partnership?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Human resource management interventions to improve health workers' performance in low and middle income countries: a realist review
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Expanding immunization coverage in rural India: A review of evidence for the role of community health workers
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas: seven management functions.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Impact of Ministry of Health Interventions on Private Medicine Retailer Knowledge and Practices on Anti-Malarial Treatment in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Developing a tool to measure health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Mentoring And Organisational Constraints As Predictors Of Attitudes To Work In The Nigerian Public Health Sector
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• From staff-mix to skill-mix and beyond: towards a systemic approach to health workforce management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Perceptions of working conditions amongst health workers in state-owned facilities in northeastern Nigeria
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Guiding principles for national health workforce strategies
  Guidelines
  29 June 2008
• healthtraining.org
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• HINARI
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Health workforce education and training
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• The Public Health Initiative
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• Virtual campus of public health
  Web site
  1 January 2008
• HIV and human resources: competing priorities or interconnected solutions?
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program (CA FETP): a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Monitoring education and training for health workers
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2008
• Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Resource requirement tool
  Guidelines
  1 January 2008
• Appropriate training and retention of community doctors in rural areas: a case study from Mali
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Ethiopia's human resources for health programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Malawi's Emergency Human Resources Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• How much does quality of child care vary between health workers with differing durations of training? An observational multicountry study
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Human Resources for Health, Country Profile Nigeria.
  Country profile
  1 January 2008
• Human resources for maternal health: multi-purpose or specialists?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Can the feedback of patient assessments, brief training, or their combination, improve the interpersonal skills of primary care physicians? A systematic review
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Effectiveness of training supervisors to improve reproductive health quality of care: a cluster-randomized trial in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2008
• Physicians' attitudes towards knowledge transfer and sharing
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Strengthening Management In Low-Income Countries: Lessons From Uganda A Case Study On Management Of Health Services Delivery
  Members document
  1 January 2007
• Health worker motivation in Africa: the role of non-financial incentives and human resource management tools
  Article
  1 January 2006
• The health workforce in Africa: challenges and prospects
  The Africa Working Group of the Joint Learning initiative on Human Resources for Health and Development, report
  1 January 2006
• Informal consultation on scaling up health workforce production
  Report
  1 January 2006
• The world health report 2006: working together for health.
  Members document
  1 January 2006
• An intervention involving traditional birth attendants and perinatal and maternal mortality in Pakistan.
  Case study
  1 January 2005