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Private-Sector Participation in Preservice Health Education
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Project: CapacityPlus
Date: 2013
Description: Private health professional schools are expanding rapidly. With health training needs increasing and...
Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study
Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana faces health worker shortages, limiting the country’s likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Working together with the stakeholders...
mSakhi: An Interactive Mobile Phone-Based Job Aid for Accredited Social Health Activists
Two studies demonstrate that, compared with existing paper-based job aids, mobile phone-based mSakhi is a more user-friendly and effective accredited social health activist (ASHA) job aid for a range of activities,including self-learning, counselling, and newborn assessment
Improving Health Through the Social Quality Approach in 800 Communes in Madagascar
To help empower the Malagasy people to address their own health needs, the USAID/Santenet2 program introduced the social quality approach in 800 communes in Madagascar. The social quality approach is...
Scaling Up Health Worker Production: The Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach
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Project: CapacityPlus
Series: Technical Brief #9
Date: 2013
Description: This technical brief presents an overview of an approach to help identify...
Report on the Society for Family Health Gender Assessment
The Society for Family Health conducted an exercise to assess gender mainstreaming in their internal organizational processes and programming so that its programming responds to President’s Emergency...
Global Lessons in Achieving Nutrition Security and Their Application to the Indian Context
This April 2012 report examines various countries that have successfully lowered their malnutrition rates and identifies aspects of the their approaches that may be beneficial in the Indian context.
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Toward Development of a Rural Retention Strategy in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Understanding Health Worker Preferences
Author: Jaskiewicz W, Phathammavong O, Vangkonevilay P, Paphassarang C, Phachanh IT, and Wurts L
Project: CapacityPlus
Description: This report presents the results of a discrete choice...
Strengthening ASHA Support Mechanisms for Improved Newborn Care in Uttar Pradesh: Technical Brief
Project: Vistaar Project
Series: Technical Brief
Date: 2012
Description: This brief demonstrates simple, cost effective ways to support ASHAs so that they can improve essential newborn practices.
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Improving Skilled Birth Attendance in Jharkhand
Project: Vistaar Project
Series: Technical Brief
Date: 2012
Description: This brief examines the Vistaar Project's efforts to increase the number of auxillery nurse midwives trained and certified as...