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Chastonay, Philippe; Moretti, Roberto; Zesiger, Veronique; Cremaschini, Marco; Bailey, Rebecca; Pariyo, George; Kabengele, Emmanuel Mpinga – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
In 2006, WHO alerted the world to a global health workforce crisis, demonstrated through critical shortages of health workers, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO in World Health Report, 2006). The objective of our study was to assess, in a participative way, the educational needs for public health and health workforce development among potential…
Descriptors: Educational Demand, Program Effectiveness, Public Health, Needs Assessment
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Chimalizeni, Michael; Chimwaza, Gracian; Chataira, Blessing; Msengezi, Chipo – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2014
This article shares the experience and lessons learned by Information Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA) in rolling out an on-line distance learning course. Key objectives were to explore the efficacy of online courses in increasing skills and awareness of electronic resources access initiatives. This is in the context of responding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outreach Programs, Health Education, Scientific and Technical Information
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. – 1978
In 1973 a global study aimed toward the development of criteria for establishing institutions for training home economists for rural development programs was initiated by the Home Economics and Social Programmes Services of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. As a first step, a survey was developed on the variety of roles appropriate…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change Agents, Competence, Criteria