Health Worker Education and Training: Selected Resources
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Making It Happen: Using Distance Learning to Improve Reproductive Health Provider Performance
IntraHealth International (1999)
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A practical how-to guide for developing distance-learning programs in low-resource settings, Making It Happen presents a clear, step-by-step path from conceptualization through evaluation, with detailed examples from program experiences in developing countries.
Subject Categories: Education & Training Methods | Quality
Management of Community-Based Family Planning Programs
SEATS Project (1992)
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The manuals are the result of collaborative work among the Center for African Family Studies, the SEATS Project of John Snow, Inc. and the Center for Population and Family Health of Columbia University. The manual for trainers offers standardized curriculum guidelines for teaching program management skills specific to community-based distribution programs. The manual for trainees contains material appropriate for mid-level managers of community-based contraceptive distribution (CBD) programs who wish to improve program management or for those who do not have a CBD program, but wish to start one.
Includes Manual for Trainers and Manual for Trainees
Subject Categories: Community Health | Family Planning | Management & Leadership
Management of Tuberculosis Training for Health Facility Staff
World Health Organization (2003)
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This set of training modules has been prepared by the Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, through a contract with ACT International, Atlanta, Georgia USA. The modules were field-tested in Malawi through the support of the National Tuberculosis Control Program of Malawi.
This course has been designed for health workers who are responsible for detecting and managing patients with TB. These health workers may include health assistants, medical assistants, nurses, clinical assistants, clinicians, or physicians. Some may be private practitioners. This course will teach the skills and knowledge that health workers specifically need to detect cases of pulmonary TB, manage drug therapy for TB patients, inform patients about TB, and monitor the success of TB case detection and treatment at health facility level. The course will not teach basic medical techniques familiar to health workers, such as how to give injections or sterilize needles and syringes. The course will not teach medical procedures used by clinicians to diagnose TB, manage severe side-effects, treat TB patients who have defaulted, or treat patients with chronic or multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).
Includes 11 separate documents
Subject Categories: All Curricula | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Management of Tuberculosis Training for Health Facility Staff: How to Organize Training for Health Facility Staff on TB Control
World Health Organization (2004)
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How to Organize Training for Health Facility Staff on TB Control is one booklet in a set of materials for the course Management of Tuberculosis: Training for Health Facility Staff. The user of this guide should be familiar with the course materials and teaching methods.
This guide is for provincial or district level staff responsible for training health facility staff who detect and treat cases of tuberculosis (TB). This guide explains options for using the course Management of Tuberculosis: Training for Health Facility Staff. The national TB control program will determine how the course is to be used in a particular country and will make any necessary adaptations in the course materials. This guide is for the staff who will implement training at the provincial or district level, according to directives from the national level.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Guide for Midwives and Doctors
World Health Organization (2000)
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This manual is written for midwives and doctors at the district hospital who are responsible for the care of women with complications of pregnancy, childbirth or the immediate postpartum period, including immediate problems of the newborn. It comprises evidence-based norms and standards of care; managerial tools to strengthen the capacity of the health care system; a process to foster involvement of individuals, families and communities; and an implementation strategy.
Subject Categories: Maternal & Newborn Care | Postabortion Care
Managing newborn problems: A guide for doctors, nurses and midwives
World Health Organization (2003)
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This guide has been produced by the World Health Organization to assist countries with limited resources in their efforts to reduce neonatal mortality and to ensure care for newborn babies with problems due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, such as asphyxia, sepsis, and low birth weight or preterm birth.
Subject Categories: Maternal & Newborn Care
Maternal Care among Adolescents
YouthLens No. 11
Family Health International (2004)
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YouthLens is a series of research briefs that summarize the latest information on key issues regarding reproductive health and HIV prevention among youth ages 10 to 24.
This issue's key issue is: Pregnant teenagers, who die twice as often during childbirth as women in their 20s, need appropriate services to prevent death and disability.
Subject Categories: Adolescent Health | Maternal & Newborn Care
Measuring the Competence of Healthcare Providers, QA Issue Papers 2(1)
Quality Assurance Project (2001)
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This paper provides a framework for understanding the key factors that affect provider competence. Different methods for measuring competence are discussed, as are criteria for selecting measurement methods. Also, evidence from various research studies on measuring the effectiveness of different assessment techniques is presented.
Subject Categories: Quality
Medical and Service Delivery Guidelines for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services, 3rd ed.
IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) (2004)
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These Guidelines are intended to improve the knowledge, skills, and confidence of service providers in the delivery of high-quality sexual and reproductive health services. Based on a client-rights approach, the Guidelines offer up-to-date evidence-based guidance on a range of sexual and reproductive issues, including family planning.
Subject Categories: Integrated Reproductive Health
Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd ed.
World Health Organization (2004)
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The Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use is one of WHO's two evidence-based guidelines on contraceptive use. The document reviews the medical eligibility criteria for use of contraception, offering guidance on the safety of use of 19 different methods for women and men with specific characteristics or known medical conditions. The recommendations are based on systematic reviews of available clinical and epidemiological research. It is the companion guideline to WHO's Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use. These documents are intended to be used by policy-makers, program managers, and the scientific community, and aim to support national programs in the preparation of service delivery guidelines.
Subject Categories: Family Planning
