Sarah Castle Consultancy

Human Resources for Health

Many developing countries lack sufficient numbers of trained health personnel and/or personnel of a sufficient quality. A lack of knowledge, training, resources and efficient referral systems combined with stockouts and inadequate or irregular salaries can lead to frustrations which compromise patient outcomes. These factors influence health workers' motivation and job satisfaction which, in turn, affect quality of care.

Community health

June 2011 - Intrahealth International: Mid-term review of the training and supervision strategies for health workers in the national community health programme 'Santénet2' in Madagascar.

Pre-service training

November 2011- Intrahealth International: Assessment of 'bottlenecks' to improve teaching quality at the Gao nursing school in northern Mali. The study used the innovative 'bottleneck' tool to carry out a needs assessment and to identify 'best-buys' for the improvement of health worker training.
December 2010 - Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University: Evaluation of family planning teaching curricula used in pre-service training in nursing and midwifery schools in Mali.

In-service training

November 2012 - Concern Worldwide/Options: Development of research methodology and instruments for the evaluation of two programmes in Sierra Leone to improve health workers' motivation and performance.

Links



Intrahealth Madagascar (English)	Intrahealth Madagascar (French)	Gao Nursing School Bottleneck Study	Georgtown Powerpoint Family Planning