Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education

MJ Schleiff, I Aitken, MA Alam, ZA Damtew… - Health Research Policy …, 2021 - Springer
Background This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health
Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have …

Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

J Frenk, L Chen, ZA Bhutta, J Cohen, N Crisp, T Evans… - The lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Problem statement 100 years ago, a series of studies about the
education of health professionals, led by the 1910 Flexner report, sparked groundbreaking …

Schools of public health in low and middle-income countries: an imperative investment for improving the health of populations?

F Rabbani, L Shipton, F White, I Nuwayhid, L London… - BMC public health, 2016 - Springer
Background Public health has multicultural origins. By the close of the nineteenth century,
Schools of Public Health (SPHs) began to emerge in western countries in response to major …

Where there is no health research: what can be done to fill the global gaps in health research?

M McKee, D Stuckler, S Basu - PLoS medicine, 2012 - journals.plos.org
As part of a cluster of articles leading up to the 2012 World Health Report and critically
reflecting on the theme of “no health without research," Martin McKee and colleagues …

[HTML][HTML] Profesionales de la salud para el nuevo siglo: transformando la educación para fortalecer los sistemas de salud en un mundo interdependiente

J Frenk, L Chen, ZA Bhutta, J Cohen, N Crisp, T Evans… - Educación …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hace 100 años, diversos estudios sobre la educación de los profesionales de la salud
dieron lugar a reformas innovadoras. Los nuevos retos del siglo xxi obligan a rediseñar …

Continuing professional development for medical, nursing, and midwifery cadres in Malawi, Tanzania and South Africa: A qualitative evaluation

C Feldacker, J Pintye, S Jacob, MH Chung… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background As innovations in the prevention and treatment of HIV and TB advance,
continuing professional development (CPD) of health care workers (HCWs) remains a high …

[HTML][HTML] The role of information and communication technology in community outreach, academic and research collaboration, and education and support services (IT …

A Joshi, J Meza, S Costa, DMP Perin… - Perspectives in health …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods A survey was deployed to assess the ICT needs in an academic setting. The survey
was developed using the Delphi methodology. Questionnaire development was initiated by …

Strengthening health workforce capacity through work-based training

JKB Matovu, RK Wanyenze, S Mawemuko… - BMC international health …, 2013 - Springer
Background Although much attention has been given to increasing the number of health
workers, less focus has been directed at developing models of training that address real-life …

Building capacity without disrupting health services: public health education for Africa through distance learning

L Alexander, EU Igumbor, D Sanders - Human Resources for Health, 2009 - Springer
The human resources crisis in Africa is especially acute in the public health field. Through
distance education, the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape, South …

Knowledge of professional healthcare providers about sickle cell disease: Impact of a distance education course

KKS Diniz, AS Pagano, APPC Fernandes… - … , Transfusion and Cell …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Objective To assess the impact of the distance education course “Sickle Cell Disease:
Primary Health Care Line” on knowledge acquisition of professional healthcare providers …