Human Resources in Health
Topic outline
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Forum
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Learn about the Statement to Human Resources in Health (HRH) - WHO 2006, what does "Health workforce" mean, what does this cover and about the term "e-Professionalism"
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These are the six key components of Human Resources in Health and e-Professionalism. Please, find out!
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Lesson Plan 1: Core Concepts
Health
workers drive health systems. They are agents of positive change in their
communities. Without health professionals, health care services cannot be
delivered. A health system, a health care system or a healthcare system, is
defined as the "organisation of people, institutions, and resources that
deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations".
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Here, you learn about the foundational knowledge of lesson 1.
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These are the three characteristics of Human Resources in Health.
The objectives of HRM in the attempt to increase the organisation's effectiveness are added the list of characteristics.
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Understand health needs and identifying gaps - and some more issues are described here.
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Identified needs for productivity, performance, and other related items are listed here.
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Supportive supervision is a continuous process to support health workers and promote quality at all health system levels.
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Task sharing is a fundamental approach to promoting efficiencies and overcoming health workforce shortages or maldistribution - read more here!
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Technology and telecommunications can transform health systems by supporting health workers - here is an approach given!
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Professionalism is the competence or skill expected from a professional. Medical professionalism or professionalism in the healthcare sector is described in this section.
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Here are examples and analogies that show how the concept can be applied in real life.
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Lesson Plan 2: Current and Future Needs.
Human
Resources in Health should reduce health inequities by assessing and designing
interventions to solve current and future needs -
Overview of the basic knowledge to this lesson plan.
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Short introduction about availability of health workers
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About the importance of health workers retention
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Building on the WHO's global recommendations (WHO, 2010), health policymakers need to consider which combination of interventions can be most appropriate and attractive to health workers. Job preferences vary depending on health worker type, gender, age, marital status, and location.
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Three items to provide decent working conditions (WHO)
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Learn about continuing professional development can include in-service training, clinical mentoring, and other relevant, practical activities that promote capacity building
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Why single health workers will struggle!
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To strengthen health care delivery and establishing or reinforcing trust between patients and health care providers, community engagement is an approach.
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The development of health workers is an item that must be considered. Read about the other issues!
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Read about youth ↔ workforce development.
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Health professional education must lead the way forward to produce competent, responsive, interprofessional, and connected healthcare teams - read about all issues that must be considered!
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Resilience is important for almost all issues in the health system. Read about this issue a d learn an example.
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Here is a brief case study to develop ideas to offer a solution to the described situation.
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Lesson Plan 3: Institutional Capacity, Policy, and Leadership
Many countries have fragmented HRH leadership and policies. The ability to assign the right health worker to the right place with the right skills and motivation depends on the ability to state current needs and forecast future needs based on reliable data. -
Many countries have fragmented HRH leadership and policies. The following approaches can build the capacity of multisectoral stakeholders to strengthen health workforce leadership and governance:
- Build capacity for workforce planning;
- Facilitate national-level HRH stakeholder leadership groups;
- Conduct participatory HRH strategic planning;
- Use HRH research and evidence to inform interventions;
- Engage the private sector (WHO, 2018a).
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Build capacity for workforce planning, facilitate national-level HRH stakeholder leadership groups, conduct participatory HRH strategic planning, use HRH research and evidence to inform interventions, and engage the private sector are topics in this unit.
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Here is a brief case study to develop ideas to offer a solution to the described situation.
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Lesson Plan 4: Data, Monitoring and Accountability
Human Resources in Health stakeholders — from policymakers to facility managers — need data to understand how to improve HRH intervention implementation and drive performance. -
HRH stakeholders—from policymakers to facility managers—need data to understand how to improve HRH intervention implementation and drive performance. Accurate and timely HRH data are required to connect HRH inputs with health outcomes and calculate the relative success of HRH programs. The following systems and approaches are recommended for health workforce data collection, management, accountability, and use in decision-making:
- Monitor HRH availability and accessibility;
- Implement National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA);
- Harness appropriate technologies at site and district levels;
- Monitor HRH financial investments (Fort et al., 2017; Riley et al., 2012)
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The availability of HRH data in many countries could be improved upon in terms of interoperability, robustness, accuracy, and frequency of updates
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Read about the core indicators of the NHWA organised into modules that can be tracked over time
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Technology might help improve HRH performance - read the considerations and learn from the examples.
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Learn about financial investment (sources from donor, national, decentralised, or community levels).
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Here is a brief case study to develop ideas to offer a solution to the described situation.
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Here are references and connected
areas for students to further inquiry and read more about.
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H5P
Here you find all mentioned references.
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