Health systems in many low-income countries remain fragile, and the record of human resource planning and management in Ministries of Health very uneven. Public health training institutions face the dual challenge of building human resources capacity in ministries and health services while alleviating an...
This may be slightly conservative given the fact that the data for four of these courses were collected from the pilot version of the TTT survey, which did not contain the years 2006 and 2007 as answer options for this question; and, the past participants who completed these questionnaires ...
Targets for HReH are useful for planning, monitoring, and resource mobilization, but they need to be updated and informed by evidence of effectiveness and efficiency. Supporting evidence should take into consideration (1) ever-changing disease-specific issues including the epidemiology, the complexity ...
Approval to conduct the study was received from the University of Ottawa Research Ethics Board and those of the University of Western Cape, University of Cape Town, and University of Limpopo. Further permissions for the KII component of the study were obtained from the health departments of the ...
‘There are no regular refresher courses; the government depends on partners’ support - the partners have a certain period of time within which they operate and the partners train on specific components for CHWs to do. But this training is ad hoc and there is no structured programme.’ (Dis...
There are also concerns as to whether FPs are appropriately trained for the local community needs or whether training is based on imported curricula from high-resource settings. In South Africa, the government appears more convinced about the need for FPs at the district hospital than in primary ...
INTRODUCTION: In the last decades, Mozambique has been undergoing demographic, epidemiological, economic and social transitions, which have all had a notable impact on the National Health System. New challenges have emerged, causing a need to expand the
When it comes to potential difficulties in online learning, which could be caused by differences in students’ and educators’ perception of engagement, it is good to know that online courses designed to support feedback and formative assessment during the learning process have a positive effect on...
[46], the late pesticide application, use of drip instead of sprinkler irrigation and delayed first irrigation seem to be the major management actions according to good agricultural practice that prevent pesticide leaching to groundwater in a semiarid Mediterranean region. The limited spatial and ...
This is necessary because much, albeit not all, urban foraging research is dichotomised between studies that either focus on resource supply, conservation, and management (i.e., what is there and used), or consider the foragers, their practices, knowledge, motivations and livelihoods (i.e.,...