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2011
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19900054
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The WHO Patient Safety Programme has developed these hand hygiene training films for health-care workers involved in training sessions about hand hygiene best practices and/or about hand hygiene compliance observation. .../...
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Wismar, M., Maier, C. B., Glinos, I. A., Dussault, G., Figueras, J.
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2011
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13400112
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CHF 150,00
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CHF 105,00
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The mobility of health professionals affects the performance of health systems, and increasingly so since the European Union (EU) enlargements in 2004 and 2007. .../...
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2011
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19900048
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 21,00
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The WISN human resource planning and management tool gives health
managers a way to analyze and calculate. The WISN approach is based on
a health worker's workload, with activity (time) standards applied for each
workload component.
Using the WISN approach allows health managers to:
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2010
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11500789
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CHF 25,00
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CHF 17,50
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Policy-makers in all countries, regardless of their level of economic development, struggle to
achieve health equity and to meet the health needs of their populations, especially vulnerable and
disadvantaged groups. One of their most complex challenges is ensuring people living in rural and
remote locations have access to trained health workers. .../...
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2010
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00208805
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 15,00
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The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is an international journal of public health with a special focus on developing countries. Since it was first published in 1948, the Bulletin has become one of the world's leading public health journals. .../...
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2010
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19300232
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 21,00
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This booklet which includes a CD-ROM should enable any health-care worker to facilitate a workshop on patient safety. This workshop explores how multiple weaknesses present within the hospital system can lead to error. It aims to provide all health-care workers and managers with an insight into the underlying cause of such events. .../...
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2009
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15400011
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CHF 20,00
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Developing countries
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CHF 14,00
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This toolkit aims to demonstrate how a small number of recommended indicators can provide critical information to guide interventions. These tools can be used at different levels of management to track the progress of a programme and focus efforts on achieving targets. Special attention is paid to how data can be used by on-site managers to help them make periodic decisions. .../...
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Dal Poz, M.R., Gupta, N., Quain, E., Soucat, A.L.B.
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2009
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11500757
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CHF 40,00
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Developing countries
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CHF 28,00
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In many countries, shortage and maldistribution of trained health workers is one of the most important constraints to strengthening the delivery of primary and other health services, including curative, promotional, preventive and rehabilitative services. .../...
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Nolte, E., Knai, C., McKee, M.
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2008
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13400084
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CHF 40,00
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CHF 28,00
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One of the greatest challenges facing health systems in the 21st century is the need to address the growing burden of chronic diseases, which are complex and require a long-term, multifaceted response.
This book examines the health system response to this rising burden in eight countries: Denmark, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia and Canada. .../...
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2008
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14600043
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CHF 15,00
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CHF 10,50
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There is a growing health workforce crisis in many countries. In the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, the disparity in supply and demand, geographic maldistribution in urban and rural settings and imbalance in the number of different categories of professionals, represent further dimensions of the crisis facing health system development and its health workforce. .../...
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Bossert, T., Bärnighausen, T., Bowser, D., Mitchell, A., Gedik, G.
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2007
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11500715
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CHF 15,00
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CHF 10,50
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This book contains a method for assessing the financial, educational and management systems and policy context, essential for strategic planning and policy-development for human resources for health. This tool has been developed as an evidence-based comprehensive diagnostic aid to inform policy-making in low and middle income countries in regards to human resources for health. .../...
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2007
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15200101
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CHF 10,00
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CHF 7,00
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This publication is intended to provide policy options and practical guidance to Member States in developing and sustaining health workforces that enhance health systems performance and service quality and improve health outcomes. Although this Strategy can serve as a user guide, it is not intended to replace the need for country-based and country-specific health workforce strategies.
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2006
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14600041
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Investing in health, particularly that of the poor, is central to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. In support of this strategy WHO's Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is actively promoting in countries of the Region community-based initiatives like Basic Development Needs, Healthy Cities, Healthy Villages and Women in Health and Development. .../...
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2006
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19300212
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 21,00
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The tools and guidelines collected in this book will assist health programme managers, policy makers, and leaders to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health workforce and its capacity to deliver and scale up HIV/AIDS services. .../...
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2005
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11500621
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 21,00
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This WHO publication calls for the transformation of healthcare workforce training to better meet the needs of caring for patients with chronic conditions.
While the world is experiencing a rapid escalation in chronic health problems, training of the healthcare workforce has generally not kept pace. .../...
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2004
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15200059
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CHF 20,00
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This report reviews the available literature and the surveys of health worker (and other skilled health personnel) migration in the Pacific region. The migration of skilled health workers poses a number of problems to maintain adequate health care provision in countries. .../...
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2004
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00208208
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 15,00
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Guilbert, J.-J.
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1998
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11206035
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CHF 40,00
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CHF 40,00
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The sixth edition of an educational handbook, revised and updated in 1992, that has become a standard text for training teachers in the health sciences. Unorthodox in its approach, the book challenges teachers to increase their skills so as to make learning easier for students. .../...
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Abbatt, F.R.
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1992
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11500377
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CHF 30,00
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CHF 30,00
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A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to teaching methods that can make the training of primary health care workers more relevant and effective. Noting that training courses often fail to prepare students for real conditions in the field, the book argues for job-oriented training focused on tasks, skills, and attitudes rather than on the memorization of facts from various academic disciplines. .../...
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Flahault, D., Piot, M., Franklin, A.
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1988
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Order Number
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11500291
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CHF 18,00
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Developing countries
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CHF 12,60
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Bankowski, Z., Mejia, A.
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1987
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18300020
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CHF 20,00
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CHF 14,00
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1986
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13400028
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CHF 8,00
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Developing countries
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CHF 5,60
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1986
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Order Number
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15300002
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CHF 3,00
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Developing countries
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CHF 2,10
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1983
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Order Number
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18300016
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CHF 20,00
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CHF 14,00
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1983
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Order Number
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18301016
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CHF 15,00
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CHF 10,50
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