Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Assessment of human resources for health using cross-national comparison of facility surveys in six countries | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Assessment of human resources for health using cross-national comparison of facility surveys in six countries Neeru Gupta and Mario R Dal Poz Open Access Address Department of Human Resources for Health World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland Email Neeru Gupta - guptan@ Mario R Dal Poz - dalpozm@ Corresponding author Published 12 March 2009 Received 16 October 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 22 doi 1478-4491-7-22 Accepted 12 March 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 22 2009 Gupta and Dal Poz licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Health facility assessments are being increasingly used to measure and monitor indicators of health workforce performance but the global evidence base remains weak. Partly this is due to the wide variability in assessment methods and tools hampering comparability across and within countries and over time. The World Health Organization coordinated a series of facilitybased surveys using a common approach in six countries Chad Côte d Ivoire Jamaica Mozambique Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The objectives were twofold to inform the development and monitoring of human resources for health HRH policy within the countries and to test and validate the use of standardized facility-based human resources assessment tools across different contexts. Methods The survey methodology drew on harmonized questionnaires and guidelines for data collection and processing. In accordance with the survey s dual objectives this paper presents both descriptive statistics on a number of policy-relevant indicators for monitoring and evaluation of HRH as well as a .
