Analysis of Human Resources for Health in Malawi : Implementation of WISN Study in Seventy-Five Facilities
The health workforce in Malawi, along with other African countries suffered from an acute shortage of its workforce. The Malawi health sector strategic plan (HSSP) 2011-2016 set out key strategies and interventions to support the delivery of an ess...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/294301580714814242/Implementation-of-WISN-Study-in-Seventy-Five-Facilities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33307 |
| Summary: | The health workforce in Malawi, along
with other African countries suffered from an acute shortage
of its workforce. The Malawi health sector strategic plan
(HSSP) 2011-2016 set out key strategies and interventions to
support the delivery of an essential health package of
services. The human resources for health strategic plan
included an HRH capacity development plan that focused on
training of registered nurse midwifes, nurse midwife
technicians, community midwives and community volunteers.
These plans focused on production of health care workers
(increasing the quantity) but not on the most efficacious
distribution based on disease burden and demand for
services. Emergency approaches to replace health workers
were instituted to address the shortages of health workers
together with the fielding of large numbers of community
volunteers and community based health surveillance
assistants which could be trained in a short space of time
and provide the community essential health package (c-EHP).
The Ministry of Health (MoH) is currently developing its
next health sector strategic plan, with an expansion of the
essential health package and is now challenged with
increasing its stock of health workers within the context of
declining share of development assistance. The World Bank as
part of its support to the government of Malawi (GoM) has
instituted a WISN study in seventy-five Health facilities
targeting eight priority health cadres. Additionally, a
mapping and qualitative study have been undertaken to
identify key community cadres undertaking direct health
related activities with their communities. The results of
this study will provide evidence to inform policy and
strategy development particularly in relation to the current
work of the MoH on development of the new five-year HSSP and
HR strategy. |
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