tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" The health worker recruitment and deployment process in Kenya: an emergency hiring program"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : The health worker recruitment and deployment process in Kenya: an emergency hiring program | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access The health worker recruitment and deployment process in Kenya an emergency hiring program Ummuro Adano Address Management Sciences for Health Cambridge MA USA Email Ummuro Adano - uadano@ Published 16 September 2008 Received 24 April 2008 Accepted 16 September 2008 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 19 doi 1478-4491-6-19 p p This article is available from http content 6 1 19 2008 Adano licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Despite a pool of unemployed health staff available in Kenya staffing levels at most facilities were only 50 and maldistribution of staff left many people without access to antiretroviral therapy ART . Because in the current system it takes one to two years to fill vacant positions even when funding is available an emergency approach was needed to fast-track the hiring and deployment process. A stakeholder group was formed to bring together leaders from several sectors to design and implement a fast-track hiring and deployment model that would mobilize 830 additional health workers. This model used the private sector to recruit and deploy new health workers and manage the payroll and employment contracts with an agreement from the government to transfer these staff to the government payroll after three years. The recruitment process was shortened to less than three months. By providing job orientation and on-time pay checks the program increased employee retention and satisfaction. Most of the active roadblocks to changes in the health workforce policies and systems are human and not technical stemming from a lack of leadership a problem-solving mindset and the alignment of stakeholders .