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COPE® for Maternal Health Services: A Process and Tools for Improving the Quality of Maternal Health Services

Purpose:To provide health care staff with a continuous quality improvement approach to maternal health services.Description:COPE is a process and a set of simple and practical tools for assessing and improving the quality of maternal health services. The process encourages self-assessment and joint problem solving by service staff and supervisors.

Counselor Training Evaluation

Purpose: To evaluate and improve counselor-client interactions. Description:

Motivations Mapping Tool

This tool, developed in partnership with Stop TB/WHO and the World Bank, assists DOTS programs in identifying performance problems; underlying stakeholder motivations that may contribute to those problems; and potential incentives, enablers, and system improvements that can address motivational challenges.

Cost Revenue Analysis Tool Plus

CORE Plus training course conducted for Syrian NGOs in Turkey, 2017. Photo Credit: Steven Collins/MSHPURPOSETo achieve universal health coverage it is essential to know the cost of services so that sufficient resources can be provided for good quality of care.

The Challenge Model

The Challenge Model is a simple learning tool for teams to use in the workplace to address real challenges and achieve results. Beginning with creating a shared vision, the Challenge Model creates motivation and commitment within teams enabling them to face their challenges and achieve results.

Employee Satisfaction Survey

Employee satisfaction refers to the employee’s sense of well-being within his or her work environment. It is the result of a combination of extrinsic rewards, such as remuneration and benefits, and intrinsic rewards, such as respect and appreciation.

HRH Action Framework

The HRH Action Framework is designed to assist governments and health managers to develop and implement strategies to achieve an effective and sustainable health workforce.

La Herramienta de Administración y Sustentabilidad Organizacional para Programas Nacionales de Control de la TB (MOST para la TB)

La Herramienta de Administración y Sustentabilidad Organizacional para Programas Nacionales de Control de la TB (MOST para la TB) es un proceso para mejorar la administración de un PNCT, cuyo resultado final es contribuir a lograr los tres objetivos principales de los PNCT.

A Tool for Assessing Management Capacity at the Decentralized Level in a Fragile State

By Newbrander, W., C. Peercy, M. Shepherd-Banigan, and P. Vergeer.International Journal of Health Planning and Management Epub 28 October 2011.

Leadership During a Pandemic

This training guide and these tools were created as part of the USAID STOP AI project to help local leaders prepare their communities to respond to widespread disease outbreaks. For more information about any of the tools on this page, or to request a copy to be sent to you, please contact Lisa Stone at LStone@msh.org. Facilitator Guide (PDF, 4.8 MB) Pandemic Toolkit (PDF, 9.4 MB)

Healthy Families, Communities and Municipalities Methodology (HCM)

Purpose: To improve maternal and child health by empowering people to take better care of their health, strengthening communities and local governments' health management capacity, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Tool description:

PROSALUD The Fully Functional Service Delivery Point in Nicaragua and other Highlights

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Best Practices Compendium

The Compendium can be searched by the following categories: technical area, region, country, target population, and type of practice (best practice or promising practice). You can narrow your results further by using the keyword search.

How to Educate Clients about the Benefits of Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy

This tool, an interactive training DVD, is appropriate for advocating and training on family planning and maternal, neonatal, and child health, targeting primary and secondary facility level providers and trainers, as well as for community health workers.

Financial Management Assessment Tool (FinMAT)

FinMAT helps managers assess their organizations’ financial management capacity, identify areas for improvement, make specific action plans to address shortcomings, and monitor for improvement The heart of FinMAT is an instrument for collecting and summarizing technical information about an organization’s financial management systems and practices.

HOSPICAL: A Tool for Allocating Hospital Costs

HOSPICAL: A Tool for Allocating Hospital Costs can help improve a hospital’s performance and enhance its financial sustainability. Managers who use this practical tool will find it a tremendous aid in analyzing current costs and revenues, comparing efficiency, and forecasting what those figures would be if hospital services are expanded or modified.

RxSolution

Proper stock management is essential for providing medicines to patients when and where they need them. This is especially important for people living with HIV because treatment is a lifelong commitment and adherence is critical to good outcomes. Pharmacists must be able to track, analyze, and manage stock information to prevent stock-outs, overstocks, and stock expiring on the shelf.

Electronic Dispensing Tool

In Namibia, Togo, and 10 other countries, MSH pioneered the Electronic Dispensing Tool, a cutting-edge information system that uses the patient as the focal point and captures critical information needed to make decisions about an individual’s drug regimen, as well as stock inventory and aggregate patient statistics. How it's used

Family Planning Manager's Handbook: Basic Skills and Tools for Managing Family Planning Programs

The first management book written specifically for family planning program managers, this award-winning handbook has become a standard text in management training courses around the world.A practical guide for managers of health and family planning programs, this handbook provides practical information on:planningcoordinationstaffingsupervisiontrainingmanagement informationcontraceptive logisticsf

Management Strategies for Improving Family Planning Services: The Family Planning Manager Compendium

Managers everywhere need specific solutions to the critical challenges facing public health and development programs.

Management Strategies for Improving Health and Family Planning Services: A Compendium of The Manager Series, Vols. V—IX

In a world of rising health care costs and increasing health care needs, access to tested approaches and techniques in the management of health care is more vital than ever. This compendium offers practical tools and techniques to address current challenges in public health management.

Community Health Services Costing Tool

Purpose The purpose of the Community Health Services Costing Tool is to help managers and planners estimate the costs of providing health services at the community level. It can be used for individual community services, packages of services, or for all community services. It can be used to calculate the current costs and/or the costs of starting a new program or scaling up an existing one.

TB Service Delivery Cost Tool

TB is a major problem in many countries and consumes significant external and domestic resources.

TB Economic Impact

Tuberculosis is a major cause of adult deaths and places a huge social and financial burden on the people who have the disease, as well as on their families and communities. The economic burden of TB can be a significant drain on a society’s resources and having estimates of the costs is very useful when advocating for funding from governments and/or donors.

Integrated Community Case Management Costing & Financing Tool

Purpose The results and analysis will provide evidence-based data for implementing, scaling-up, and maintaining iCCM activities that will be invaluable for successful funding advocacy, for conducting feasibility/sustainability studies, for assessment of cost-effectiveness, and for planning financing strategies and mechanisms. Description