From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from : <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Optimizing health worker roles for maternal and newborn
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…. <b><span style="font-weight:bold">The World Health Organization’s</span></b> 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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">A more rational distribution of
tasks and responsibilities among cadres of health workers can significantly
improve both access and cost-effectiveness<br>
 – 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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Annexes<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 1: Cadre definitions used in
the project <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 2: List of participants in the
scoping and two final panel meetings <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 3: The scoping questions <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 4: The criteria used in moving
from evidence to recommendations (the DECIDE framework) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 5: Frameworks related to lay
health workers <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 6: Frameworks related to the
other cadres <br>
                (auxiliary nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives, midwives, nurses,
associate clinicians, advanced level associate clinicians, non-specialist
doctors) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 7: Evidence base (GRADE
evidence profile, summaries of findings for reviews of qualitative evidence,
and citations for included reviews) <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 8: Contextualizing the
guidelines – workbook</span></font><br></p></div></div></div><br>