Innovations in public health education: promoting professional development and a culture of health.

Let’s Take it to the Clouds: The Potential of Educational Innovations, Including Blended Learning, for Capacity Building in Developing Countries

In modern decentralised health systems, district and local managers are increasingly responsible for financing, managing, and delivering healthcare. However, their lack of adequate skills and competencies are a critical barrier to improved performance of health systems. Given the financial and human resource, constraints of relying on traditional face-to-face training to upskill a large and dis...

Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians

Responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-Saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician clinicians (NPCs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to NPCs as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery. This development should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking about the role of physicians and with innovations in physician education and in-service training. In ...

Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan

How e-learning creates new opportunities in hospital settings? Innovations in a low resource setting

Background: E-learning and telemedicine have become common methods in changing and developing medical education and clinical processes. The purpose of this study was to describe the innovations of blending e-Learning into the educational and medical processes of hospital services Methods: The process of action research included plan, act, observation and reflection was followed. Implementation,...

Health-oriented prescriptions for the development of school culture

  Introduction: School-centered health programs have always been considered by education system as a factor in promoting students’ health and building effective community culture. The purpose of this study was to obtain health-oriented prescriptions for stakeholders that can be effective in developing school culture. Method: The study was performed by analytical review method with document anal...