The Importance of Educating Health Workers for Improving Maternal Health

August 26, 2011

Rebecca Shore

JHU∙CCP | Communications Specialist

Interested in learning more about pre-service education? Looking for tools to help improve the education of midwives and other health workers? Working on midwifery curricula?

MCHIP and Jhpiego are pleased to release the new Pre-Service Education Toolkit. We gratefully acknowledge the expertise and guidance of the technical advisory group who provided guidance and input to ensure the toolkit is as useful to as many organizations as possible.

 
According to WHO, there is a global shortage of 4.3 million health workers, primarily in developing countries. The lack of well-trained health workers is a major barrier to implementing evidence-based interventions, such as improvements in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. There is also a great need for relevant and accurate pre-service education for those who work with maternal and child health. The Pre-Service Education Toolkit, developed by Jhpiego under the leadership of USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP):
  • Outlines key programmatic steps
  • Highlights lessons learned
  • Identifies relevant resources to assist country programs, donors and governments with pre-service education programs

The toolkit is structured to cover the main components of a high-quality pre-service education system. Although the toolkit is targeted for midwives, it may be used for other cadres of health care as well.

Each section offers evidence-based guidance and includes related resources. The entire content of the toolkit is also available as a printable document, the Pre-Service Education Program Roadmap.
 
 
This post is contributed by Julia Bluestone, the Senior Technical Advisor at Jhpiego's Global Learning Office, and Catherine Carr who is the Senior Maternal Health Advisor at MCHIP.

 

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