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| Title |
Building capacity without disrupting health services: public health education for Africa through distance learning
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, April 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-7-28 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lucy Alexander, Ehi Uche Igumbor, David Sanders |
| Abstract |
The human resources crisis in Africa is especially acute in the public health field. Through distance education, the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, has provided access to master's level public health education for health professionals from more than 20 African countries while they remain in post. Since 2000, interest has increased overwhelmingly to a point where four times more applications are received than can be accommodated. This home-grown programme remains sensitive to the needs of the target learners while engaging them in high-quality learning applied in their own work contexts. This brief paper describes the innovative aspects of the programme, offering some evaluative indications of its impact, and reviews how the delivery of text-led distance learning has facilitated the realization of the objectives of public health training. Strategies are proposed for scaling up such a programme to meet the growing need in this essential area of health human resource capacity development in Africa. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 79 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 23% |
| Researcher | 13 | 16% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 23 | 29% |
| Unknown | 9 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 29 | 37% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 13% |
| Unknown | 9 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 July 2018.
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#3,561,046
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#423
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#12,451
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#2
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