Articles by Topic

Setting the Context

Obstetric ectoscopy: an eye-opener for hospital-based clinicians

Shifting Visions: “Delegation” Policies and the Building of a “Rights-Based” Approach to Maternal Mortality

Using human rights in maternal mortality programs: from analysis to strategy

Practical lessons from global safe motherhood initiatives: time for a new focus on implementation

Health Workers for All and All for Health Workers: The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action

Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World

 

Human Resources for MDG 5

Health Workforce Challenges: Lessons From Country Experiences

Human resources and the quality of emergency obstetric care in developing countries: a systematic review of the literature

Improving Maternal Survival: The Case for Mid-Level Providers

The World Health Report 2005: Make every mother count

Policy Brief 1. Integrating maternal, newborn and child health programmes

Policy Brief 2. Rehabilitating the workforce: the key to scaling up MNCH

Policy Brief 3. Access to care and financial protection for all

Policy Brief 4. Working with civil society organizations

The World Health Report 2006: Working together for health

Factsheet: Proportion of births attended by a skilled attendant – 2007 updates

Consensus on Essential Competencies of Skilled attendant in the African Region: Report of regional Consultation

Equity in health and healthcare in Malawi: analysis of trends

 

Task-Shifting

Glossary of Terms

Addressing the health workforce crisis: towards a common approach

Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa. A desk review

Human resources for health in the low-resource world: collaborative practice and task shifting in maternal and neonatal care

Shifting Visions: “Delegation” Policies and the Building of a “Rights-Based” Approach to Maternal Mortality

Joint Health Professions Statement on Task Shifting

Mid-level health workers: The state of the evidence on programmes, activities, costs and impact on health outcomes. A literature review

Caring that Counts: The Evidence Base for the Effectiveness of Nursing and Midwifery Interventions

Task shifting in health care in resource-poor countries

Non-physician clinicians in 47 sub-Saharan African countries

Shortage of health workers in the Malawian public health system: how do parliamentarians perceive the problem?

Task Shifting: Global Recommendations and Guidelines

 

Africa Experience of NPCs

Provision of abortion by mid-level providers: international policy, practice and perspectives

Mid-level providers in emergency obstetric and newborn health care: factors affecting their performance and retention within Malawian health system

Postoperative outcome of caesarean sections and other major emergency obstetric surgery by clinical officers and medical officers in Malawi

Major surgery delegation to mid-level health practitioners in Mozambique: health professionals’ perceptions

Task shifting for emergency obstetric surgery in district hospitals in Senegal

Abortion Care services Provided by Registered Midwives in South Africa

Caesarean section in Malawi: prospective study of early maternal and perinatal mortality

A cost-effectiveness study of caesarean-section deliveries by clinical officers, general practitioners and obstetricians in Burkina Faso

Shaping Policy for maternal and Newborn Health: A Compendium of Case Studies

Economic evaluation of surgically trained assistant medical officers in performing major obstetric surgery in Mozambique

Addressing the Human Resource Crisis in Malawi’s Health Sector: Employment preferences of public sector registered nurses

Reducing maternal mortality in Kigoma, Tanzania

Initial community perspectives on the Health Service Extension Programme in Welkait, Ethiopia

Availability, distribution and use of emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania

Meeting the need for emergency obstetric care in Mozambique: work performance histories of medical doctors and assistant medical officers trained for surgery

Improving emergency obstetric care in Mozambique: The story of Sofala

Training medical assistants for surgery

Rates of complication in first-trimester manual vacuum aspiration abortion done by doctors and mid-level providers in South Africa and Vietnam: a randomized controlled equivalence trial

 

Global Experience

A bold new beginning for midwifery in Afghanistan

Establishment of an accreditation system for midwifery education in Afghanistan: Maintaining quality during national expansion

Human Resources for Health in India’s National Rural Health Mission: Dimension and Challenges

 

Enabling Environment

Effective scale-up: avoiding the same old traps

 

HR Management

Human Resources for Health: Tackling the Human Resource Management Piece of the Puzzle

Mid-level providers in emergency obstetric and newborn health care: factors affecting their performance and retention within Malawian health system

A review of non-financial incentives for health worker retention in east and southern Africa

Providing health care under adverse conditions: Health personnel performance & individual coping strategies

Supporting the retention of health resources for health: SADC policy context

Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the crisis

Improving motivation among primary health care workers in Tanzania: a health worker perspective

Health worker motivation in Africa: the role of non-financial incentives and human resource management tools

Measuring and managing the work environment of the mid-level provider – the neglected human resource

The interface between health sector reform and human resources in health

Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals

 

HR Planning and Policy

WHA57.19 International migration of health personnel: a challenge for health systems in developing countries

WHA59.23 Rapid scaling up of health workforce production

WHA59.27 Strengthening nursing and midwifery

Uses of population census data for monitoring geographical imbalance in the health workforce: snapshots from three developing countries

Policies and Plans for Human Resources for Health: Guidelines for Countries in the WHO African Region

Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?

Nurses’ experiences of recruitment and migration from developing countries: a phenomenological approach

Using knowledge brokering to promote evidence-based policy-making: the need for support structures

Monitoring the health workforce: measurement issues and selected tools

 

Infrastructure

Practical lessons from global safe motherhood initiatives: time for a new focus on implementation

SPARHCS: Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security. A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Implementation.

Improving availability of EmOC services in Rwanda -- CARE's experiences and lessons learned at Kabgayi Referral Hospital

 

Quality Improvement

Improving Emergency Obstetric Care through Criterion-Based Audit

Human resources and the quality of emergency obstetric care in developing countries: a systematic review of the literature

Quality Improvement for Emergency Obstetrics Care: Leadership Manual. An Adaptation Of COPE (Client-Oriented, Provider-Efficient Services

Quality Improvement for Emergency Obstetrics Care: Toolbook. An Adaptation of COPE (Client-Oriented, Provider-Efficient Services)

Bypassing primary care facilities for childbirth: a population-based study in rural Tanzania

Bypassing Health Centres in Tanzania: Revealed Preferences for Quality

Complicated deliveries, critical care and quality in emergency obstetric care in Northern Tanzania

Beyond the Numbers: Reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer

 

Referral System

Bypassing primary care facilities for childbirth: a population-based study in rural Tanzania

Maternity referral systems in developing countries: Current knowledge and future needs

 

Training

Training the health workforce: scaling up, saving lives

Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? A measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forward