tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Rebuilding human resources for health: a case study from Liberia"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Rebuilding human resources for health: a case study from Liberia | HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH Rebuilding human resources for health a case study from Liberia Varpilah et al. Varpilah et al. Human Resources for Health 2011 9 11 http content 9 1 11 12 May 2011 2 BioMed Central Varpilah et al. Human Resources for Health 2011 9 11 http content 9 1 11 HUMAN RESOURCES ulli FOR HEALTH CASE STUDY Open Access Rebuilding human resources for health a case study from Liberia 1 2 2 2 2 1 S Tornorlah Varpilah Meredith Safer Erica Frenkel Duza Baba Moses Massaquoi and Genevieve Barrow Abstract Introduction Following twenty years of economic and social growth Liberia s fourteen-year civil war destroyed its health system with most of the health workforce leaving the country. Following the inauguration of the Sirleaf administration in 2006 the Ministry of Health Social Welfare MOHSW has focused on rebuilding with an emphasis on increasing the size and capacity of its human resources for health HRH . Given resource constraints and the high maternal and neonatal mortality rates MOHSW concentrated on its largest cadre of health workers nurses. Case description Based on results from a post-war rapid assessment of health workers facilities and community access MOHSW developed the Emergency Human Resources HR Plan for 2007-2011. MOHSW established a central HR Unit and county-level HR officers and prioritized nursing cadres in order to quickly increase workforce numbers improve equitable distribution of workers and enhance performance. Strategies included increasing and standardizing salaries to attract workers and prevent outflow to the private sector mobilizing donor funds to improve management capacity and fund incentive packages in order to retain staff in hard to reach areas reopening training institutions and providing scholarships to increase the pool of available workers. Discussion and evaluation MOHSW has increased the total number of clinical health workers from 1396 in 1998 to 4653