Task analysis of health workers in Ethiopia
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| Name | Task analysis of health workers in Ethiopia |
| Format | . SAV |
| Coverage Location | National |
| Coverage Sex | Both |
| Abstract | This task analysis study was conducted to determine needs and gaps in education, practice, and competencies of three health care cadres: midwives, anesthetists, and rural health extension workers (HEWs). The findings would be used to inform programmatic efforts to strengthen the education, practice, and regulation of these three cadres and, in turn, strengthen professional services. Task analysis is used to provide information about the realities of practice for a particular health care cadre. Findings can be used as a data-driven method to ensure that education and training curricula, licensure exam content, and scopes of practice are based on the current, local practice reality. A task list was developed based on the examination of relevant national documents, including curricula, job descriptions, the scope of work, and other practice documents. Cadre-specific expert panels validated each of the draft task lists in a workshop setting. The validated lists were then used as the basis for data collection from targeted health workers who had experiences of between six months and four years at the time of data collection. To ensure representation across location and setting, 20 participants per cadre were invited to participate from the following regions: Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, and Nationalities and Peoples Regions (SNNPR), Somali, Harari, and Addis Ababa City Council. According to a 2012 HRH baseline survey (Ayalew et al. 2012); more than 92% of Ethiopia’s midwives, anesthetists, and HEWs work in these seven targeted study areas. Respondents reported that almost all tasks(87%) were learned in pre-service education. The majority of midwives considered themselves to be proficient or competent in 82 of the 86 tasks. |
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| Cleaned Format | . csdb |
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| Date Data Collection Started | 2012-01-01 |
| Date Data Collection End | 2012-01-01 |
| Title | Strengthening Human Resources for Health in Ethiopia |
| Data Type | Survey |
| PublicationYear | 2014 |
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| Description | The task analysis has been used to systematically document the tasks that health care workers perform on the job. Rather than relying on curricula or national documents, which may be out of date, to define tasks performed by a specific cadre of workers, task analysis collects data from those workers currently in practice. In Ethiopia, the task analysis study included three health care cadres: midwives, anesthetists, and rural health extension workers (HEWs), with the goal of identifying gaps in education, practice, and competencies. Task analysis begins with a review of national documents such as curricula, the scope of practice, and standards of practice, to develop a draft list of key services that should be performed by the targeted health workers. The Ethiopian HRH project staff developed three draft task lists using cadre-specific national documents. |
| Dataset study design | Longitudinal |
| Date Data Archived | 2020-11-01 |
| Date Data Cataloged | 2020-12-15 |
| Data Generating Unit | Public Health Emergency Management |
| URL | https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/186 |
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