Task sharing with non-physician health-care workers for management of blood pressure – Authors' reply

Authors' Reply: Teaching Health Workers Malaria Diagnosis

Fawad Aslam, Omar Aftab, Naveed Z. Janjua The importance of a person-centred approach and the intricacies of risk communication have recently been well described in PLoS Medicine [1,2]. The applicability of the patient-centred approach to Eastern countries, however, has cultural, religious, and practical impediments that demand careful consideration. The bulk of the world population lives outsi...

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The Effect of Mutual Task Sharing on the Number of Needed Health Workers at the Iranian Health Posts; Does Task Sharing Increase Efficiency?

Background Nowadays task sharing is a way to optimize utilization of human resources for health. This study was designed to assess the effect of task sharing, mutually between midwives and Family Health Workforces (FHWs), on the number of needed staff across the Iranian Health Posts.   Methods The workload and required number of midwives and FHWs in a Health Post were calculated and compared in...

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Health care executives be physician or non-physician: qualification in health care management is crucial.

Primarily, how well organization performs and handles the tough challenges does depend on how well the health care manager is educated and trained. The managers are expected to integrate modern business management practices with clinical and healthcare knowledge in hospital and health care institutions. All managers, irrespective of what they manage, perform four generic tasks (planning, organi...