Seven Creative Approaches to Health Workforce Challenges

By The Editorial Team, IntraHealth InternationalSeptember 13, 2019Over the course of our 40-year history, IntraHealth International has consistently designed creative solutions to health workforce challenges. From new technologies to old-fashioned human storytelling, we find new solutions to longstanding problems.  In a new technical publication, we highlight seven examples of how and why we look for new ways to get results. Here’s a sneak peak of what’s inside The Future of Global Health Starts Here: 7 Creative Approaches to Health Workforce Challenges. Funding the Next Generation of Health Workers in Kenya The low-interest student loan program Afya Elimu is a public-private partnership that serves future nurses, clinical officers, medical laboratory technicians, pharmaceutical technologists, nutritionists, health record information officers, and public health officers—cadres that form the bulk of the health workforce in Kenya and are critical to achieving universal health coverage.  Communicating with Health Workers on the Front Lines of Pandemics In 2014, during the world’s largest-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus, IntraHealth and UNICEF used existing iHRIS software to create mHero—a platform for health workers and health officials to stay connected via SMS messaging during the pandemic. Building a Culture of Qual...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health HIV AIDS Noncommunicable Diseases Digital Health Education Performance Policy Advocacy Health Workforce Systems Health Workers Source Type: news