Can Action Research Strengthen District Health Management and Improve Health Workforce Performance? A Research Protocol
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2013
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The single biggest barrier for countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to scale up the necessary health services for addressing the three health-related Millennium Development Goals and achieving Universal Health Coverage is the lack of an adequate and well-performing health workforce. This deficit needs to be addressed both by training more new health personnel and by improving the performance of the existing and future health workforce. However, efforts have mostly been focused on training new staff and less on improving the performance of the existing health workforce. The purpose of this paper is to disseminate the protocol for the PERFORM project and reflect on the key challenges encountered during the development of this methodology and how they are being overcome.
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, Universal Health Coverage, Health workforce
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Mshelia, C., Huss, R., Mirzoev, T., Elsey, H., Baine, S.O., Aikins, M., Kamuzora, P., Bosch-Capblanch, X., Raven, J., Wyss, K. and Green, A., 2013. Can action research strengthen district health management and improve health workforce performance? A research protocol. BMJ open, 3(8), p.e003625.