Human Resources: Resource Guide

Organizations ■ Jhpiego

http://www.jhpiego.org/

■ Partners in Health http://www.pih.org/

■ Lake Tanganyika Floating Clinic Http://www.FloatingClinic.org

■ Pre-vent http://www.pre-vent.org/

■ SEARCH: Society for Education, Action & Research in Rural Health http://www.searchgadchiroli.org/

■ Averting Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Project http://www.amdd.org

■ HSSE: Health Strengthening for Equity: The Power of Midlevel Providers http://www.midlevelproviders.org

■ Global Health Workforce Alliance http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/

■ Intrahealth International http://www.intrahealth.org/

■ We Care Solar http://wecaresolar.com/index.html

DVD & Media: ■ Birth of a Surgeon

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/birth-of-a-surgeon/introduction/747/

■ Dead Mums Don’t Cry http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dmdc.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0vzs8bC8s ■ Human Resources for Maternal Health: Midwives, TBA’s and Taskshifting.

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ondemand/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.play&mediaid=24D98A09-9AC3-D88C-ACD73610C055E9D9

■ Doctor Shortage in Tanzania http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=15092009&seg=6

Articles of Note:

Newspaper Articles ■ Where Life’s Start is a Deadly Risk

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/health/24birth.html?fta=y

■ “Midwives Deserve Better Pay and Treatment” Sarifa Kalokola The Citizen. http://thecitizen.co.tz/business/13-local-business/4679-midwives-deserve-better-pay-and-treatment.html

Papers, Booklets & Briefs ■ World Health Organization. Bangladesh Trains Health Care Workers To Reduce

Maternal Mortality. 2008 http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/knowledge/resources/casestudy_bangladesh/en/index.html

■ Aradhya K. Task shifting is expanding the roles of family planning providers Africa Health, November 2009 http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/mera/task_shifting.htm

Online Articles and Blog Posts ■ Where the Healthcare Workers Are. Liz Borkowski. The Pump Handle. October 28,

2010. http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2010/10/where_the_healthcare_workers_a.php

■ Sunshine, Cathy. Female Health Workers Key to Reducing Maternal Mortality May 9, 2010 http://www.suite101.com/content/female-health-workers-key-to-reducing-maternal-mortality-a239126#ixzz1ABBG6nUU

Journal Abstracts & Articles ■ Mullan F, Frehywot S. Non-physician clinicians in 47 sub-Saharan African countries.

The Lancet 2007; published online 13 June. ■ Bergstrom S. Who will do the caesareans when there is no doctor? Finding creative

solutions to the human resource crisisBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2005; 112 (9):1168-1169.

■ Kinney MV, Kerber KJ, Black RE, Cohen B, Nkrumah F, et al. 2010 Sub-Saharan Africa's Mothers, Newborns, and Children: Where and Why Do They Die? PLoS Med 7(6) http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000294

■ Kirby T. Godfrey Mbaruku—an early hero of modern maternal health. The Lancet. June 2010 (375: 9730) p.1961 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960916-6/fulltext

■ McCord C, Mbaruku G, Pereira C, Nzabuhakwa C, Bergstrom S (2009). "The quality of emergency obstetrical surgery by assistant medical officers in Tanzanian district hospitals." Health Aff (Millwood) 28(5): w876-85. Epub 2009 Aug 6

■ Women on the Front Lines of Health Care: The State of the World’s Mothers. Save The Children. May 4th, 2010. http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/what_we_do/every_one/news.html

■ Chaudhury, Nazmul, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan and F.

Halsey Rogers. 2005. “Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. Perspectives 20: 91–116.

■ Kumar P. Providing the providers - remedying Africa's shortage of health care workers.

N Engl J Med. 2007;356:2564–2567.