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Title

Handbook on monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health : with special applications for low- and middle-income contries / edited by Mario R. Dal Poz [and others].

Publication

Geneve : World Health Organization, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Poz, Mario Roberto Dal.
• World Health Organization.
• World Bank.
• United States. Agency for International Development.

Description

xiv, 178 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

In many countries shortage and maldistribution of trained health workers is one of the most important constraints to strengthening the delivery of primary and other health services including curative promotional preventive and rehabilitative services. At the same time many countries currently lack the technical capacity to accurately monitor their own health workforce: data are often unreliable and out-of-date common definitions and proven analytical tools are absent skills and experience for assessing crucial policy issues are lacking. This Handbook aims to strengthen that technical capacity. It offers health managers researchers and policy makers a comprehensive and standard reference for monitoring and evaluating human resources for health. It brings together an analytical framework with strategy options for improving the health workforce information and evidence base as well as country experiences to highlight approaches that have worked. This publication enhances understanding of human resources for health and contributes to the growing body of tools and applied research designed to address the challenge of measuring and improving health workforce outcomes strengthening health systems and ultimately improving population health.

Subject

• Medical personnel
• Qualitative research
• Personnel management
• Health Workforce > organization & administration
• Developing Countries
• Health Personnel > organization & administration
• Health Personnel > statistics & numerical data
• Personnel Management
• Personnel de santé
• Pénurie de main-d'oeuvre
• Ressources humaines
• Pays en développement
• Personnel management
• Medical personnel
• Qualitative research
• human resources management
• human resources planning
• medical personnel
• human resources accounting
• labour cost
• labour migration
• occupational classification
• ILO mentioned
• gestion des ressources humaines
• planification de la main-d'oeuvre
• personnel médical
• comptabilité des ressources humaines
• coût de la main-d'oeuvre
• migrations de main-d'oeuvre
• classification des professions
• OIT mentionné
• administración de recursos humanos
• planificación de la mano de obra
• personal médico
• contabilidad de los recursos humanos
• costo de la mano de obra
• migraciones laborales
• clasificación de ocupaciones
• mención de la OIT
• Developing countries
• Developing countries
• developing countries
• pays en développement
• países en desarrollo

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• guide.
• WHO pub.
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.
• pub OMS.
• guía.

Note

• "The present publication is the result of a collaborative effort between the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank and the World Health Organization." - P. xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Contents

Part I: Overview. Monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health: challenges and opportunities -- Boundaries of the health workforce: definition and classifications of health workers -- Part II: Monitoring the stages of the working lifespan. Monitoring the active health workforce: indicators, data sources and illustrative analysis ; Framework and measurement issues for monitoring entry into the health workforce ; Monitoring health workforce transitions and exits -- Part III: Measurement strategies and case studies. Measuring expenditure on the health workforce: concepts, data sources and methods ; Use of facility-based assessments in health workforce analysis ; Use of population census data for gender analysis of the health workforce ; Use of administrative data sources for health workforce analysis: multicountry experience in implementation of human resources information systems ; Understanding health workforce issues: a selective guide to the use of qualitative methods ; Analysis and synthesis of information on human resources for health from multiple sources: selected case studies -- Part IV: Data dissemination and use. Getting information and evidence into policy-making and practice: strategies and mechanisms.

ISBN

• 9789241547703
• 9241547707

LCCN

2011502325

OCLC

• ocn435421949
• 435421949
• SCSB-1535417

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library