Financial Incentives and Mobility of the Health Workforce in Burkina Faso
This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It describes a study done to analyze health worker perceptions of renumeration and determine the factors that...
View ArticleProcess and Effects of a Community Intervention on Malaria in Rural Burkina...
In the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of young children affected by malaria have no access to formal health services. Home treatment through mothers of febrile children supported by...
View ArticleCost-Effectiveness Study of Caesarean-Section Deliveries by Clinical...
This paper evaluates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative training strategies for increasing access to emergency obstetric care in Burkina Faso. [adapted from abstract]
View ArticleEffects of a Skilled Care Initiative on Pregnancy-Related Mortality in Rural...
The aim of this paper is to assess to what extent a skilled care initiative was associated with pregnancy-related mortality in Ouargaye district, Burkina Faso. [from summary]
View ArticleMethods for Evaluating Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of a Skilled Care...
This paper aims to describe the design, methods and approaches used to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the skilled care initiative in reducing pregnancy-related and perinatal...
View ArticleHow to Know What You Need to Do: A Cross-Country Comparison of Maternal...
This study explored clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for maternal health in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Tanzania to compare factors related to CPG use including their content compared with World Health...
View ArticleHealth Worker Preferences for Community-Based Health Insurance Payment...
Although a community-based health insurance scheme (CBI) was introduced in Burkina Faso, coverage has remained low and dropout rates high because health workers are dissatisfied with the provider...
View ArticleChallenges of Developing an Instrument to Assess Health Provider Motivation...
The objective of this study was to develop a common instrument to monitor any changes in maternal and neonatal health care provider motivation resulting from the introduction of pilot interventions in...
View ArticleMotivation and Incentives of Rural Maternal and Neonatal Health Care...
This study explores the role of provider motivation in the quality of maternal and neonatal care. The main research questions were: which factors motivated these respondents to join the health...
View ArticleVoluntary HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behaviours among Health Care Workers:...
This study aims to assess the prevalence of voluntary counselling and testing and high risk behaviours among health care workers in Burkina Faso. [from abstract]
View ArticleCompliance with Focused Antenatal Care Services: Do Health Workers in Rural...
This study aimed to assess health workers’ compliance with the procedures set in the focused antenatal care (ANC) guidelines in rural Uganda, Tanzania and Burkina Faso; to compare the compliance within...
View ArticleExploring the Effects of Task Shifting for HIV through a Systems Thinking...
This study aims to conceptualize the wider range of effects of task shifting through a systems thinking lens and to explore these effects using task shifting for HIV in Burkina Faso as a case study....
View ArticleAn Exploratory Analysis of the Regionalization Policy for the Recruitment of...
The idea for this policy emerged after finding a highly uneven distribution of health personnel across urban and rural areas, the availability of a large number of health officers in the labour market,...
View ArticleNursing and Midwife Staffing Needs in Maternity Wards in Burkina Faso...
The aim of this study was to measure the capacity of referral hospitals’ maternity services to cope with the demand for health services after the implementation of this policy. [from abstract]
View ArticleWhich Incentive Package Will Retain Regionalized Health Personnel in Burkina...
The objective of the study was to identify a package for attracting and retaining health workers in underserved areas. [from abstract]
View ArticleBurkina Faso Country Profile: Meeting People's Needs with IA/PMs
Burkina Faso faces a daunting family planning (FP) challenge. While the use of any modern contraceptive method more than tripled between 1993 and 2006, the unmet need for FP remains high, at 31.1%...
View ArticleEstablishing Sustainable Performance-Based Incentive Schemes: Views of Rural...
Performance-based incentives (PBIs) are currently receiving attention as a strategy for improving the quality of care that health providers deliver. Experiences from several African countries have...
View ArticleEarly Infant Feeding Practices in Three African Countries: The PROMISE-EBF...
Immediate and exclusive initiation of breastfeeding after delivery have been associated with better neonatal survival and child health and are recommended by the WHO. We report impact on early infant...
View ArticleDo Community Health Workers Perceive Mechanisms Associated with the Success...
The use of community health workers to administer prompt treatments is gaining popularity in most sub-Saharan African countries. Their performance is a key challenge because it varies considerably,...
View ArticleDoes the National Program of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of...
To assess the PMTCT program achievement in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. [from abstract]
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