Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan J. Cohen et al.
Lincoln Chen, Timothy Evans, Sudhir Anand, Jo Ivey Boufford et al.
In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative-a consortium of more than 100 health leaders-proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and ...
Dina Balabanova, Anne Mills, Lesong Conteh, Baktygul Akkazieva et al.
In 1985, the Rockefeller Foundation published Good health at low cost to discuss why some countries or regions achieve better health and social outcomes than do others at a similar level of income and to show the role of political will and socially progressive policies. 25 years on, the Good Health ...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Awlad Hossain, Ahmed Mushtaque RajaChowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health (HRH) in the formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh. This data is essential for developing an HRH policy and plan to meet ...
Marjorie A. Koblinsky, Oona M. R. Campbell, J. Heichelheim
The various means of delivering essential obstetric services are described for settings in which the maternal mortality ratio is relatively low. This review yields four basic models of care, which are best described by organizational characteristics relating to where women give birth and who perform...
Anne T. Coghlan, Hallie Preskill, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas
Abstract Appreciative inquiry is an approach to seeking what is right in an organization in order to create a better future for it. How and when it might be used in evaluation practice is explored in this chapter.
Daniel J. Corsi, S. V. Subramanian, Clara K Chow, Martin McKee et al.
BACKGROUND The PURE study was established to investigate associations between social, behavioural, genetic, and environmental factors and cardiovascular diseases in 17 countries. In this analysis we compare the age, sex, urban/rural, mortality, and educational profiles of the PURE participants to na...
Rachel Jenkins, Robert R. Kydd, Paul E. Mullen, Kenneth J. Thomson et al.
BACKGROUND: Migration of health professionals from low and middle income countries to rich countries is a large scale and long-standing phenomenon, which is detrimental to the health systems in the donor countries. We sought to explore the extent of psychiatric migration. METHODS: In our study, we u...
Kaosar Afsana, Sabina Faiz Rashid
Despite initiatives and interventions undertaken at national and international levels, maternal health is still neglected in Bangladesh, and the maternal mortality ratio remains one of the highest in the world. In order to improve rural women's access to maternity care, in 1996 the Bangladesh Rural ...
S. M. Mostafa Kamal
In Bangladesh, preference for place of delivery and socioeconomic factors associated with caesarean section are not well-understood. This paper examines the socioeconomic correlates of preference for institutional delivery and caesarean sections in Bangladesh. The study used data from the nationally...
Reinhold Gruen, Raqibul Anwar, Tahmina Begum, James R Killingsworth et al.
This paper analyses the system of financial and non-financial incentives underlying job preferences of doctors in Bangladesh who work both in government health services and in private practice. The study is based on a survey of 100 government-employed doctors with private practice, across different ...
Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa, Mark Newman, Kawkab Mahmud, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is a highly populous country with three-quarters rural population. Pressing national shortages in health professionals has resulted in high vacancy rates in rural areas. These are compounded by excessive absenteeism and low retention among nurses and doctors posted to rural lo...
Freddie Ssengooba, Syed Azizur Rahman, Charles Hongoro, Elizeus Rutebemberwa et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite the expanding literature on how reforms may affect health workers and which reactions they may provoke, little research has been conducted on the mechanisms of effect through which health sector reforms either promote or discourage health worker performance. This paper seeks to t...
Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan Cohen et al.
Syed Masud Ahmed, Md. Awlad Hossain
Objectives To explore current knowledge and practice of the unqualified/semi-qualified allopathic providers in the informal sector in rural Bangladesh to develop informed and need-based intervention for them. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted in three conveniently selected s...