PHM-Exch> Optimizing health worker roles for maternal and newborn health

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from : EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


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*Optimizing health worker roles for maternal and newborn health

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Website: http://bit.ly/Usp1gG

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“…. *The World Health Organization’s* recommendations on optimizing the
roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce
shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium
Development Goals.

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A more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of
health workers can significantly improve both access and cost-effectiveness
 – for example by training and enabling ‘mid-level’ and ‘lay’ health
workers to perform specific interventions otherwise provided only by cadres
with longer (and sometimes more specialized) training.

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These recommendations are intended for health policy-makers, managers and
other stakeholders at a regional, national and international level. WHO
hopes that countries will adapt and implement them to meet local needs. ****

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The recommendations were developed through a formal, structured process
including a thorough review of available evidence. The process and the
recommendations are described in the related documents….”

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*Annexes

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Annex 1: Cadre definitions used in the project ****

Annex 2: List of participants in the scoping and two final panel meetings **
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Annex 3: The scoping questions ****

Annex 4: The criteria used in moving from evidence to recommendations (the
DECIDE framework) ****

Annex 5: Frameworks related to lay health workers ****

Annex 6: Frameworks related to the other cadres
                (auxiliary nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives, midwives,
nurses, associate clinicians, advanced level associate clinicians,
non-specialist doctors) ****

Annex 7: Evidence base (GRADE evidence profile, summaries of findings for
reviews of qualitative evidence, and citations for included reviews) ****

Annex 8: Contextualizing the guidelines – workbook
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