tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Empowering primary care workers to improve health services: results from Mozambique's leadership and management development program"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Empowering primary care workers to improve health services: results from Mozambique's leadership and management development program | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Empowering primary care workers to improve health services results from Mozambique s leadership and management development program Cary Perry Address Management Sciences for Health Cambridge MA USA Email Cary Perry - cperry@ Published 23 July 2008 Received 15 January 2008 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 14 doi 1478-4491-6-14 Accepted 23 July 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 14 2008 Perry 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 This article is the third article in the Human Resources for Health journal s feature on the theme of leadership and management in public health. The series of six articles has been contributed by Management Sciences for Health MSH and will be published article-by-article over the next few weeks. The third article presents a successful application in Mozambique of a leadership development program created by Management Sciences for Health MSH . Through this program managers from 40 countries have learned to work in teams to identify their priority challenges and act to implement effective responses. From 2003 to 2004 1 1 health units in Nampula Province participated in a leadership and management development program called the Challenges Program. This was following an assessment which found that the quality of health services was poor and senior officials determined that the underlying cause was the lack of human resource capacity in leadership and management in a rapidly decentralizing health care system. The program was funded by the US Agency for International Development USAID and implemented in partnership between the Mozambican Ministry of Health MOH .