Health manpower development and utilization: Perspectives and experience of Primary Healthcare workers in the North-Central State, Nigeria
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2017-12
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Annals of Medical Research, Published by the College of Medicine, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
Abstract
Manpower otherwise referred to as human resources is cardinal to effective health service delivery. In rendering services of health care to the people, human resource is required to operate the equipment and utilize fund in rendering the services to the people. The quality of manpower is determined by the level of training and motivation of the workers. World-wide, the public health sector has been facing the problems of human resources, particularly in developing countries like Nigeria with high turnover rate of staff, brain-drain to greener pastures, frequent occurrences of strike actions among other challenges. This study assessed the manpower development and utilization in /Iorin West Local Government Area health facilities.
The study was descriptive cross sectional by design involving all consenting, consecutive the primary health care workers in florin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, North-central, Nigeria. Ninety-four percent of the workers were working within their trained specialty. Many (43%), of the respondents have attended a form of training in the last three years. The majority (86%) of the health workers surveyed reported that the courses attended were relevant to their practice while 83% reported that they benefited from the courses they attended. A quarter of the health workers felt that the courses' content did not justify the cost of organizing the training. There is need to conduct regular training need assessment to identify learning gaps among the primary health care workers in the public sector.
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Manpower, Human resources, Training, Development, Health worker, PHC, Local government
Citation
11. Uthman, M. M. B., Alere, F., Rotimi, B. F., Ahmed, A., Uthman, O. A., Ameen, H. A., Omojasola, T. P., Aderibigbe, A. S., Oloyede, H. K., Salaudeen, A. G., & Musa, O. I. (2017 ). Awareness and prevalence of sexual violence among female undergraduate university students in Ilorin. Annals of Medical Research, 6, 5-10