Table 4 Description of the draft tool and rationale for each section
Section of the tool | Technique(s) used | Rationale for inclusion |
|---|---|---|
Introduction | Explanatory text | To explain when, how, why and by whom an assessment should be carried out, and what should happen to the results. To emphasise the multi-sectoral nature of the process and the need for an evidence-based approach to the process. |
A1: Details of the initiative being addressed | Open questions | To emphasise the importance of alignment with the relevant strategies and policies. |
A2: Contributors to the assessment | Open questions | To help ensure transparency and accountability. |
A3: Objectives of the initiative | Open questions with prompts | To help ensure the assessment focuses on these objectives. |
A4: Extent to which implementation is dependent on the health workforce | Checklist | To ensure that HRH implications are considered as well as HRH impacts. |
A5: Anticipated health workforce impacts | Checklist | To prompt the user to try to anticipate all types of direct and indirect, positive and negative, intended and unintended HRH impacts. |
B1: Understanding the initiative’s dependency on the health workforce | Checklist + open questions | To encourage consideration of processes, assumptions and causal links as well as outcomes and impacts. To encourage consideration of different options to address the anticipated impacts and implications. |
B2: Understanding the initiative’s impact on the health workforce | Checklist + open questions | |
B3: Equity analysis | Checklist + open questions | To ensure consideration of how impacts might be different for different groups. |
B4: Stakeholder analysis | Checklist + open questions | To assist the organisation to build in appropriate HRH stakeholder engagement activities to the initiative. |
B5: Legal and political considerations | Open questions with prompts | To ensure that legal and political considerations are not overlooked. |
B6: Next steps | Checklist + open questions | To encourage action to be taken to address the issues highlighted by the assessment. |
B7: Additional comments | Open question | To allow the inclusion of important issues not covered in the earlier sections. To give space to justify a decision not to take action as a result of the assessment. |