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Skill mix imbalance

• Healthcare Inequity and Physician Scarcity - Empowering Non-Physician Healthcare
  Article published in Economic & Political Weekly
  30 March 2013
• Pakistan: WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel - Implementation Strategy Report, 2011
  Alliance document
  1 September 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
• "All the Talents"
  How new roles and better teamwork can release potential and improve health services
  1 July 2012
• Using staffing ratios for workforce planning: evidence on nine allied health professions
  Article published in the Human Resources for Health journal
  1 February 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
• Task shifting in HIV/AIDS service delivery: An exploratory study of expert patients in Uganda
  USAID Health Care Improvement Project, Report, 2012
  30 November 2011
• Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis
  CapacityPlus Technical Brief 1, November 2011
  17 November 2011
• Aligning and Clarifying Health Worker Tasks to Improve Maternal Care in Niger
  The Tahoua Region Human Resources Quality Improvement Collaborative
  1 September 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
• 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
• The Chattisgarh Experience with a Three-Year Course for Rural Health Care Practitioners
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Health workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Job satisfaction and its modeling among township health center employees: a quantitative study in poor rural China
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Inequalities in the Technical Brazilian Health Workforce
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Measuring health workforce inequalities in the Ethiopian context: methods and applications
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Understanding health workforce wastage in Mexico
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Monitoring the skills mix of the health workforce
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2009
• The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?
  WHO Bulletin
  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
• 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
• Task shifting in HIV/AIDS: opportunities, challenges and proposed actions for sub-Saharan Africa
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Guiding principles for national health workforce strategies
  Guidelines
  29 June 2008
• Scaling Up, Saving Lives
  Report
  1 January 2008
• Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Guidelines: incentives for health professionals
  Guidelines
  1 January 2008
• Mismatches in the formal sector, expansion of the informal sector: immigration of health professionals to Italy
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  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
• Human resources for maternal health: multi-purpose or specialists?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Postoperative outcome of caesarean sections and other major emergency obstetric surgery by clinical officers and medical officers in Malawi
  Study
  1 January 2007
• Major surgery delegation to mid-level health practitioners in Mozambique: health professionals' perceptions
  Study
  1 January 2007
• 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
• Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa. A desk review
  Article
  1 January 2004
• Technical consultation on Imbalances in the health workforce
  World Health Organization, report
  1 January 2002
• Imbalances in the health workforce. A briefing paper
  World Health Organization, technical brief
  1 January 2002