Giorgio Cometto

TL;DR: Evidence concerning CHW program effectiveness can help policymakers identify a range of options to consider, however, this evidence needs to be contextualized and adapted in different contexts to inform policy and practice.

TL;DR: This paper explores the policy lessons on HRH from four countries that have achieved sustained improvements in UHC: Brazil, Ghana, Mexico and Thailand and reports on country experiences using an analytical framework that examines effective coverage in relation to the availability, accessibility, acceptance and quality of HRH.

TL;DR: These are the first evidence-based global guidelines for health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes and key considerations for implementation include the need to define the role of CHWs in relation to other health workers and plan for the health workforce as a whole rather than by specific occupational groups.

TL;DR: How labour market analysis can contribute to a better understanding of the factors behind human resource constraints in the health sector and to a more effective design of policies and interventions to address them is described.

TL;DR: There was no difference between the effectiveness of care provided by mid-level health workers in the areas of maternal and child health and communicable and noncommunicable diseases and that provided by higher level health workers.