Scaling up human resources for women’s health

Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services

Background Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these disorders do not access care, thereby making necessary the improvement of existing conditions including a major rearranging of current health system structures beyond care deliv...

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Issues in Scaling Up Human Resources for Health in Low-Income Countries

Costing the scaling-up of human resources for health: lessons from Mozambique and Guinea Bissau

INTRODUCTION In the context of the current human resources for health (HRH) crisis, the need for comprehensive Human Resources Development Plans (HRDP) is acute, especially in resource-scarce sub-Saharan African countries. However, the financial implications of such plans rarely receive due consideration, despite the availability of much advice and examples in the literature on how to conduct H...

Scaling-Up Health Systems

Health systems all over Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering the consequences of a lack of organization and planning for the increase in the demand for—and use of— services. The advent of a new infectious disease undermines already limited capacity to ensure access to quality care for everyone according to established standards. Few governments in the region have managed to implement t...

Scaling up Health Informatics.

It took decades for the work of enlightened pioneers in biomedical informatics to reach the mainstream in hospitals and outpatient care. Initial successful projects, those that were able to demonstrate impact on quality and efficiency of care, relied on locally-developed systems, painstakingly tuned to the socio-technical specificities of their organizations. It took two additional decades to r...