Health Worker Education and Training: Selected Resources
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Taxonomy of Health System Standards
Quality Assurance Project (2000)
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Many types of standards exist in healthcare. Determining what type of standard is needed can be confusing. The QA Project has developed a taxonomy (or classification) of health system standards to assist in the understanding and development of standards in healthcare. The taxonomy proposes a systematic way of organizing standards and provides consistent terminology.
Subject Categories: Quality
TB/HIV Clinical Manual, 2nd edition.
World Health Organization (2004)
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TB and HIV are overlapping epidemics. For clinicians, the patient is at the centre of public health activities to tackle TB/HIV. For example, clinicians are usually in a good position to offer TB patients voluntary counseling and testing for HIV. When patients with TB find out they are HIV positive, clinicians are well placed to ensure directly or by referral that they receive lifelong care. Lifelong care should comprise the following: treatment of HIV infection; prevention and treatment of HIV-related diseases; support to decrease risk of HIV transmission; and social and psychological support. This manual provides valuable guidance for clinicians caring for patients with TB/HIV.
Subject Categories: HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Tips for Developing Life Skills Curricula for HIV Prevention Among African Youth: A Synthesis of Emerging Lessons
USAID (2002)
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Skills-based health education for HIV prevention (referred to here as life skills) provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to avoid HIV infection and maintain reproductive health. This document offers practical guidance for those planning, implementing, or strengthening life skills curricula for young people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Subject Categories: Adolescent Health | All Curricula | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Toman's Tuberculosis: Case Detection, Treatment and Monitoring: Questions and Answers, 2nd edition
World Health Organization (2004)
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The second edition of this practical, authoritative reference book provides a rational basis for the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis. Written by a number of experts in the field, it remains faithful to Kurt Toman's original question-and-answer format, with subject matter grouped under the three headings Case Detection, Treatment, and Monitoring.
Toman's Tuberculosis remains essential reading for all who need to learn more about every aspect of tuberculosis - case-finding, management, and effective control strategies. It provides invaluable support to anyone in the front line of the battle against this disease, from program managers to policy-makers and from medical personnel to volunteer health workers.
Subject Categories: HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Toolkits for Strengthening Primary Health Care
PHRplus (2005)
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In Albania, the PHRplus project and Albania counterparts developed and tested a series of tools designed to introduce family medicine concepts and strengthen primary health care (PHC) services. Toolkits were developed and tested in four pilot PHC centers in one region. The Ministry of Health (MOH) is using the tools to scale up improved PHC in Albania, and the tools can be adapted for use elsewhere. PHC facility managers and projects supporting the strengthening of PHC services will find the toolkits useful reference materials as they develop their own strategies and tools to improve quality of care and monitor and evaluate PHC strengthening efforts. This series comprises three toolkits:
Improving PHC Service Delivery Toolkit
PHC Quality Improvement Toolkit
A facility-based PHC Health Information Systems (HIS) Toolkit
The series provides a comprehensive set of reference materials to help PHC providers, family medicine trainers, and health care managers and supervisors strengthen PHC service delivery.
Subject Categories: Quality
Trainer's Guide in Sexual Health
IPPF/WHR (International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region) (2002)
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This manual is designed to train educators, counselors and other health care providers in sexual health. The nine sections of the guide cover the following topics: counseling; the social construction of gender identity; sexuality and adolescence; sexuality; negotiation and safer sex; sexuality and family planning; sexually transmitted infections; work plan and personal commitment; and training and learning. (English version available only in PDF. Spanish version available only in print.)
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Counseling | Integrated Reproductive Health
Training Manager's Guide, Quality Assurance Methodology Refinement Series.
Quality Assurance Project (2000)
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This monograph has practical guidance for creating successful learning experiences. It is organized to help managers implement training sessions, with step-by-step instructions covering topics from assessing whether training would be effective to evaluating the training. Includes several exercises to reinforce learning from text. Activities/Tools: training process chart, management chart.
Subject Categories: Education & Training Methods | Quality
Training Trainers for Development: Conducting a Workshop on Participatory Training Techniques, CEDPA Training Manual Series, vol. I.
CEDPA www.cedpa.org (1995)
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A six-day, 12-session curriculum for conducting a workshop on participatory training techniques. This manual prepares trainers to use interactive, learner-centered methods and to design, implement and evaluate participatory, competency-based training. Adult educators, community organizations, groups working with youth and organizations that wish to strengthen in-house training skills will find this manual practical, effective and easy to use.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Education & Training Methods
Training Works! What you need to know about managing, designing, delivering and evaluating group-based training
JHPIEGO, IntraHealth International, Training Resource Group, Family Health International and Population Leadership Program/Public Health Institute (2003)
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What makes one training experience better than another? Effective training can help providers of family planning/ reproductive health (FP/RH) services to improve their performance. This handbook summarizes the tasks that should be completed at each stage of training to ensure an effective training course. If you carry out these tasks, you will have a high-quality training course. Think of these tasks as standards to be achieved or guidelines to be followed.
Subject Categories: Education & Training Methods
Transfer of Learning: a Guide for Strengthening the Performance of Health Care Workers
PRIME II Project (2002)
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When health care workers participating in training are able to transfer their newly acquired knowledge and skills to their jobs, higher levels of performance and sustained improvements in service delivery are likely to result. A joint publication of PRIME II and JHPIEGO, Transfer of Learning uses a dynamic matrix to outline specific steps for supervisors, trainers, learners and co-workers to follow before, during and after a learning intervention to promote the transfer of learning. PRIME II has also created an interactive website based on Transfer of Learning.
Subject Categories: Education & Training Methods
