Date: January 2012
IFGH 2012: The Challenges of Developing a Tool to Monitor Changes in Health Worker Motivation at Primary Care Level in Ghana
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
The QUALMAT project seeks to improve the quality of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) care in rural sub- Saharan Africa. Provider skills and motivation levels are considered to hold the key to their performance. An incentive scheme and a Clinical Decision Support System will be piloted at selected primary level facilities. Here the development of an instrument to monitor the effects of these interventions on MNH provider motivation in Ghana is described.
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30 Jan 2012
IFGH 2012: Disaster Bioethics: Preparing Health Workers for Ethical Dilemmas
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
Many disasters occur in lower income countries, with responders from wealthier countries, leading to cultural and ethical conflicts. Health workers often return from disasters experiencing moral distress, linked to ethical decisions made in those settings. As part of a larger project, case studies have been collected and developed to incorporate into training materials for health workers responding to disasters.
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30 Jan 2012
IFGH 2012: Leadership and Organisational Justice: Propositions for Strengthening Human Resources for Health in Sub-Sahara Africa
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
Using Uganda as a case study of Sub-Sahara Africa the purpose of this study will be to investigate the comparative and aggregate effect of transactional, transformational and servant leadership on organisational justice perceptions, public service motivation, turnover intention, and OCB; finally the study will assess the appropriateness of these models of leadership in the context of Public, Faith-Based, and Private-For-Profit health sectors.
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30 Jan 2012
IFGH 2012: Branding- A Marketing Strategy Sets the Stage for Health Worker Retention at ICDDR, B
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
Presentation on how the marketing brand model has been replicated as employer brand management model, that helped ICDDR, B in setting the stage for workforce retention.
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30 Jan 2012
IFGH 2012: Support, Train and Empower Managers (STEM)
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
The overall objective of STEM is to strengthen the Human Resource Management (HRM) function at district and health facility level, by increasing the capacity of managers to support and supervise their staff.
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30 Jan 2012
IFGH 2012: Health Systems Strengthening for Equity (HSSE): The Power and Potential of Mid-level Providers
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
HSSE sought to expand the evidence base in support of effective use of mid-level health workers and increase recognition and effective use of mid-level health workers among national, regional, and global policymakers to address the human resource crisis in district health systems based on project evidence.
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30 Jan 2012
IFGH 2012: An Investigation of the Job Preferences of Mid-Level Healthcare Providers in Sub- Saharan Africa: Results from Large Sample Discrete Choice Experiments in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania
Posted by Irish Forum for Global Health | Conference Abstracts
This study addresses the gaps in the extant literature by focusing on MLPS (cadres that are providing the majority of healthcare) and by including potentially important motivators such as HRM and professional development (CPD). In addition the study comprises a large sample across three countries, where the majority of previous studies are single country studies.
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