Health Workforce Accounts Overview

<p>Quality, accessibility, acceptability, and productivity of the health workforce (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viable alternative for medical and surgical abortions (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enhancing healthcare worker competencies (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Geographical maldistribution of healthcare workers (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Midwives and community healthcare workers (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Carefully tailoring incentives for healthcare workers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bridge communities and health services (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Providing training opportunities in rural areas (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High workload with little supervision (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Salary top-up (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Initiating and monitoring HIV/AIDS treatment (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Telemedicine (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Weak evidence exists for its effectiveness (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preferential selection of local students for training (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Certification and embedding in health systems (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Higher patient satisfaction scores (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kenya (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Price competition and low volume sales (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>14 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lack of innovative characteristics (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Antivirals (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct funding and grants (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>58% (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They often lack regulatory expertise (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>33% (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tanzania (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anaesthetics (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Market failure (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>56% (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Most are non-communicable disease medicines (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tanzania (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Limited focus on essential medicines by local producers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analgesics (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analgesics (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10 million (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduced workloads (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Invest in the education and retention of the workforce (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mismatched competencies to patient needs (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>World Health Organization (WHO) (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gender stratification of professional status (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decent work and appropriate compensation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ensuring access to essential medicines (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Different regulatory authorities and systems (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Phase 4 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased risk of burnout and anxiety (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Universal health coverage (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>65 million (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>29% (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A system launched to strengthen national health planning and policy.

Collaboration between ILO, OECD, and WHO for health workforce data sharing.

Placing fairness and access at the center of health workforce planning.

Changing perspective from workforce shortages to quality and accessibility.

Increasing health system challenges from chronic diseases and long-term care.

Individuals who provide health education, manage illnesses, and connect communities to health services.

Strategies to keep health workers motivated and in their positions.

Efforts to keep health workers in rural communities through targeted strategies.

Delegating tasks from higher to lower-level professionals to address workforce shortages.

Policies to ensure workers are protected from health risks in their jobs.

Professional development opportunities to enhance skills of health workers.

Use of technology to deliver health care remotely.

Requirement to work in a specific area in exchange for benefits like visa waivers.

Increasing responsibilities of pharmacists to include patient management.

Strategies like salary top-ups to attract health workers to underserved areas.

Insufficient number of healthcare professionals to meet population needs, affecting care delivery.

Basic or general health care typically the first point of contact in the healthcare system.

Can reduce unsafe abortions and improve management of conditions like hypertension.

Education and training are vital for healthcare workers to adopt new roles successfully.

A list promulgated by WHO of medicines deemed essential for a basic health care system.

The registration of many non-essential medicines in drug listings.

The failure to register essential medicines, limiting their availability.

The manufacturing of medicines within a country, focused on locally needed health products.

Official records listing all medicines that are approved for use in a country.

Chronic health conditions not transmitted between persons, often treated with essential medicines.

Prescribing medications without clear indication or necessity, causing unnecessary consumption.

A situation where the healthcare market does not meet the demand for essential medicines effectively.

Strain on healthcare systems caused by inefficient medicine registration and distribution.

Pollution resulting from overproduction and poor disposal of non-essential medicines.

Categories of antimicrobials include antibiotics, antivirals, antimalarials, and antifungals.

Antibiotics make up 70% of registered products in Kenya (1253), 55% in Tanzania (760), and 58% in Uganda (963).

Challenges include market issues like low sales volume and price competition, and scientific complexities.

During this period, 14 new antibiotics were approved, but most lacked innovation.

Many large pharmaceutical companies have exited antibiotic development due to challenges.

Direct funding and grants aimed at boosting antibiotic research and development.

Strategies that encourage antibiotic development by rewarding successful outcomes.

The percentage of antimicrobials that are not classified as essential in total registrations across East Africa.

Emotional suffering due to challenging ethical dilemmas.

A state of physical and emotional exhaustion in healthcare workers.

The collective number of people delivering health services worldwide.

A strategy for improving global health workforce by the year 2030.

Basic healthcare provided at the first point of contact.

A commitment to enhance primary health care for universal health coverage.

Lack of quality in health professional training programs.

A study design to test the effectiveness of treatments in a controlled environment.

Study of the dynamics affecting supply and demand for health workers.

Collaboration among health professionals to deliver better patient care.

Frameworks defining how medications are managed in a country.

The pandemic's toll on healthcare workers, including stress and burnout.