Staffing in public health facilities after the Ebola outbreak in rural Sierra Leone: How much has changed?

Name	World Continuing Education Alliance
Activity Title	Staffing in public health facilities after the Ebola outbreak in rural Sierra Leone: How much has changed?
Details	The Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone has stipulated minimum staffing levels for all public health facility levels based on the Basic Package of Essential Health Services (BPEHS). The post-Ebola period presented an opportunity for the Government of Sierra Leone to devise a health services investment plan. This included a robust investment in human resources for health with a 2020 target for scale up of the BPEHS. Three years have now passed since the end of the Ebola outbreak and the operational question is “what has changed” in terms of progress towards achieving BPEHS standards.. Among all public health facilities in Kailahun district of Sierra Leone and in relation to BPEHS standards, we thus assessed staffing levels (medical and non-medical) one month before the onset of the Ebola outbreak, during the last month of the outbreak, and 16 months thereafter. Objectives Course Objective The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone led the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to set minimum standards of staffing (medical/non-medical) at the district level for the provision of basic essential health services (BPEHS).. In one of the worst Ebola affected districts in Sierra Leone, we assessed staffing levels measured against these stipulated standards before, during, and 16 months after the Ebola outbreak.. The study population included all health workers in 83 health facilities. We assessed staffing levels at three points in time: pre-Ebola (April 2014); the end of the outbreak (November 2015); and 16 months post-Ebola (March 2017)..
Competence	General Medicine
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Event Time	01:45 PM
Location	World Continuing Education Alliance eLearning System
Cost (UGX)	0
CPD Points	1