Building capacity in health facility management: guiding principles for skills transfer in Liberia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Management training is fundamental to developing human resources for health. Particularly as Liberia revives its health delivery system, facility and county health team managers are central to progress. Nevertheless, such management skills are rarely prioritized in health training, and sustained capacity building in this area is limited. We describe a health management delivery program in which a north and south institution collaborated to integrate classroom and field-based training in health management and to transfer the capacity for sustained management development in Liberia.

Methods

We developed and implemented a 6-month training program in health management skills (i.e. strategic problem solving, financial management, human resource management and leadershi

SUBMITTER: Rowe LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2850875 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature