Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa

Despite policies for addressing shortages and maldistribution of health professionals, sub-Saharan Africa continues to experience shortages and maldistribution of skilled health professionals. Policies such as return-of-service schemes or state-funded educational initiatives do not seem to be achiev...

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Autores principales: Mabunda, Sikhumbuzo A, Angell, Blake, Yakubu, Kenneth, Durbach, Andrea, Joshi, Rohina
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32958521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2020-000498
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author Mabunda, Sikhumbuzo A
Angell, Blake
Yakubu, Kenneth
Durbach, Andrea
Joshi, Rohina
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description Despite policies for addressing shortages and maldistribution of health professionals, sub-Saharan Africa continues to experience shortages and maldistribution of skilled health professionals. Policies such as return-of-service schemes or state-funded educational initiatives do not seem to be achieving their intended objectives, potentially due to poor design, implementation; and lack of monitoring and evaluation of the strategies. A focus by global health experts on strengthening and reformulating educational initiatives offers potential for producing, retaining and recruiting health professionals.
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spelling pubmed-75078862020-10-05 Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa Mabunda, Sikhumbuzo A Angell, Blake Yakubu, Kenneth Durbach, Andrea Joshi, Rohina Fam Med Community Health Commentary Despite policies for addressing shortages and maldistribution of health professionals, sub-Saharan Africa continues to experience shortages and maldistribution of skilled health professionals. Policies such as return-of-service schemes or state-funded educational initiatives do not seem to be achieving their intended objectives, potentially due to poor design, implementation; and lack of monitoring and evaluation of the strategies. A focus by global health experts on strengthening and reformulating educational initiatives offers potential for producing, retaining and recruiting health professionals. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7507886/ /pubmed/32958521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2020-000498 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Mabunda, Sikhumbuzo A
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Yakubu, Kenneth
Durbach, Andrea
Joshi, Rohina
Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa
title Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa
title_full Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa
title_short Reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ROS) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort reformulation and strengthening of return-of-service (ros) schemes could change the narrative on global health workforce distribution and shortages in sub-saharan africa
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32958521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2020-000498
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