Table 3 Summary of policies information from peer-reviewed publications
Policy type | Name | Country | Provider(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
Training | Localized obstetric and gynaecology training | Ghana | Doctors |
Life-saving skills | Nigeria | Midwives | |
Integrated management of childhood illness | Uganda | Doctors, nurses, midwives | |
Deployment | Rural allowance policy | South Africa | Doctors, nurses |
Occupation-specific dispensation incentive strategy | South Africa | Nurses | |
Financial incentive scheme | Niger | Doctors | |
Medicalization of rural areas | Mali | Doctors | |
Emergency hiring plan | Kenya | Doctors, nurses | |
Plan Cobra | Senegal | Doctors, nurses, midwives | |
Surgical camps | Uganda | Doctors | |
Community operation theatres | Uganda | Doctors | |
Training & Deployment | Emergency human resources program (supporting the Essential Health Package) | Malawi | Doctors, nurses |
10Â year Strategic Plan for HRH | Zambia | Doctors, nurses, midwives | |
Rurally located medical schools | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Doctors | |
Two to four year compulsory service program (CSP) with graded salary, preference for post-grad (PG) specialization, textbooks, computer, degree, variable length of service incentives | Ethiopia | Doctors | |
One to three year CSP with PG specialization and scholarships incentives | Ghana | Doctors, nurses | |
Three year CSP with PG specialization and scholarships, career advancement incentives | Kenya | Doctors, nurses | |
One year CSP with graded salaries and housing incentives | Lesotho | Doctors | |
Two year CSP with housing and career advancement incentives. | Mozambique | Doctors, nurses, midwives | |
Two year CSP with graded salary and PG scholarship incentives | Namibia | Doctors | |
One year CSP with license, PG specialization, and career advancement incentives | Nigeria | Doctors, nurses, midwives | |
One year CSP with graded salary and license to practice in private sector incentives | South Africa | Doctors | |
Three year CSP with graded salary, housing, child education, loads, preference for PG specialization and scholarship incentives | Zambia | Doctors | |
Three year CSP with license to practice and preference for PG specialization incentives | Zimbabwe | Doctors | |
Embedded | Decentralization | Ghana | Implicitly all |
Decentralization | Ethiopia | Implicitly all | |
Decentralization by devolution | Tanzania | Implicitly all | |
Sector wide approach | Tanzania | Implicitly all | |
Millennium rural initiative | Ethiopia | Implicitly all | |
Rural health improvement program | Niger | Implicitly all | |
Child survival strategy | Uganda | Implicitly all | |
Accelerating the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality | Uganda | Implicitly all | |
Sexual and reproductive health policy | Rwanda | Implicitly all | |
Facility-based childbirth policy | Rwanda | Implicitly all | |
Reproductive health service policy and standards | Ghana | Doctors, nurses, midwives | |
Cervical screening policy | South Africa | Nurses | |
Choice on termination of pregnancy act | South Africa | Doctors, nurses, midwives |