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Introduction to Health Workforce Management in Low and Middle Income Settings

Location
Internet
Term
Summer Institute
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Synchronous Online
Start Date
Monday, June 24, 2024
End Date
Friday, June 28, 2024
Class Time(s)
M, Tu, W, Th, F, 8:00 - 10:50am
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Ligia Paina
Course Instructor(s)
Kate Tulenko
Contact Name
Kate Tulenko
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Next Offered
Only offered in 2024
Prerequisite

none

Description
No health without health workers! Health worker salaries are the single largest line item in all health system budgets and their practice patterns drive health outcomes, patient satisfaction, and most other health systems costs. Yet most health leaders have no formal training in health workforce. In the setting of global aging, increased health demands, & increased migration, how will your country &health system manage the global 18 million health worker shortage? Health workers are the most important & least understood health system input. Nothing happens in public health or health systems without people. Learn how to design effective teams & manage & motivate team members.
Improves ability as a health leader by learning how to use the foundational health workforce tools. Teaches students to use the World Bank/WHO’s health worker life cycle/labor market model as well as analytical, planning, training, and management frameworks and checklists. Teaches tools to effectively manage all components of national health labor markets and health workers at the facility level. Teaches how to design effective teams and workflows and manage and motivate team members.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Describe the organizational and system context in which health workers are recruited and managed.
  2. Explain the various motivations of health workers (intrinsic, extrinsic, etc.) and accountability, engagement, and burnout/moral injury.
  3. Determine principal health workforce challenges
  4. Examine health worker labor market and health workforce management strategies and policy options.
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 25% Participation
  • 30% Assignments
  • 45% Final Project
Instructor Consent
No consent required