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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Filling the Human Resources Gap: From Policy to Professional Education
3398.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM
Oral
Filling the Human Resources Gap: From Policy to Professional Education
The quantity, quality, distribution, and productivity of health workers, both clinical and allied, are fundamental to successful performance of the health care delivery system. Challenges in human resource development persist in most countries, developed and underdeveloped alike. The presentations in this session highlight existing obstacles and promising efforts to address health workforce development Specifically, the presentations will discuss: (1)decentralization of continuing professional education in Albania as a mechanism to achieve sustainable performance improvement and responsiveness; (2) health workforce shortages and imbalances in Africa, and the urgency for policy reform and investment in order to achieve Millennium Development Goals; (3) overcoming human resource constraints in a plan to scale up access to emergency surgery in Uganda; (4) an analysis of the World Bank’s engagement in human resource policy issues in Africa, and perspectives for the future, and (5) a discussion of public health education programs and teaching methodologies in developing country settings.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to (1) identify constraints affecting human resources for health; (2) examine policy and investment needs to redress the health workforce problems in developing countries and (3) describe trends in training and education of health workers.
Moderator(s):Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD
8:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 PMDecentralizing continuing professional education in Albania: Sustainable performance improvement  [ Recorded presentation ]
Zamira Sinoimeri, Erol Çomo, Llukan Rrumbullaku, Marcel Reyners
8:50 PMPolicy Tools for Increasing the Production of Nurses in Developing Countries  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kate Tulenko, MD MPH M Phil
9:05 PMScaling up access to emergency surgery in Uganda: Meeting the human resource gap  [ Recorded presentation ]
Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, Olga Bornemisza, MEDes, MSc, Charles Hongoro, PhD, Jackson Amone, MD, MSc, Diana L. Farmer, MD, Haile Debas, MD
9:20 PMHuman Resources for Health in World Bank Operations in Africa  [ Recorded presentation ]
A. Edward Elmendorf, MA, MPH, Cesar Palacios, MD, MPH, Kathryn LaRusso, BSc
9:35 PMConcluding Remarks
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:International Health
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA