Assessment of Professional Competences. Constructive Dimension of Human Resources Management

The present article proposes a model of how to develop a plan for evaluate professional skills, applicable to people who want to certify skills acquired in non-formal ways and also in human resource departments, that want to evaluate professional skills of its own members, with the purpose to achieve a more efficient use of human resources, and also to derulate organizational development programs that includes professional training.training, evaluation, competences

India's public health system - how well does it function at the National level?

India has relatively poor health outcomes, despite having a well-developed administrative system, good technical skills in many fields, and an extensive network of public health institutions for research, training, and diagnostics. This suggests that the health system may be misdirecting its efforts, or may be poorly designed. To explore this, the authors use instruments developed to assess the performance of public health systems in the United States and Latin America based on the framework of the Essential Public Health Functions, identified as the basic functions that an effective public health system must fulfill. The authors focus on the federal level in India, using data obtained from senior health officials in the central government. The data indicate that the reported strengths of the system lie in having the capacity to carry out most of the public health functions. Its reported weaknesses lie in three broad areas. First, it has overlooked some fundamental public health functions such as public health regulations and their enforcement. Second, deep management flaws hinder effective use of resources-including inadequate focus on evaluation, on assessing quality of services, on dissemination and use of information, and on openness to learning and innovation. Resources could also be much better usedwith small changes, such as the use of incentives and challenge funds, and greater flexibility to reassign resources as priorities and needs change. Third, the central government functions too much in isolation and needs to work more closely with other key actors, especially with sub-national governments, as well as with the private sector and with communities. The authors conclude that with some reassessment of priorities and better management practices, health outcomes could be substantially improved.Public Health Promotion,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Disease Control&Prevention,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Health Systems Development&Reform,Health Economics&Finance,Housing&Human Habitats,Health Monitoring&Evaluation

Aspecte privind importanta resurselor umane pentru cresterea economica

This article tried to emphasize some aspects concerning the relation between economical increasing and investments in human resources. We proposed to study the correlation between economic performance and the application’s level of human resources management. The research was made on a number of firms from the West 5 Region. Supporting the role of investments in education and training, was sustained the idea of adapting the human resources to the structural changes of the economy imposed by the technical-scientific progress on efficiency criteria.human resource, economic growth, competitiveness

Measuring and Improving Health Care Quality for Children in Medicaid and CHIP: A Primer for Child Health Stakeholders

A large body of evidence shows that, compared to low-income uninsured children, Medicaid has been highly successful in providing children with a usual source of care and regular well-child care while significantly reducing unmet or delayed needs for medical care, dental care, and prescription drugs due to costs. Nonetheless, quality improvement centers on the notion that systematic and continuous actions lead to measurable improvement in health care services and health status. To this end, health care quality improvement efforts in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have accelerated significantly in the past several years largely due to the CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). In May 2015, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) also proposed a major modernization of federal rules regarding Medicaid managed care. If enacted, the regulations will have sweeping implications for state quality strategies that extend to all health care delivery mechanisms, including fee-for-service. Provisions in the new rules call for transparency and for states to engage stakeholders in planning and implementation.Given the acceleration in health care quality improvement and opportunities for stakeholder engagement, this brief is intended as a primer for child health policy and advocacy organizations that want to focus their efforts beyond coverage to ensure that every child enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP receives high quality health care. The goal is to help stakeholders better understand the current state of quality measurement and improvement, specifically as it pertains to children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. It covers a brief history of health care quality efforts, explains the basics of quality measurement and improvement, discusses the challenges in data collection and analysis, and describes how quality improvement initiatives work. Importantly, it discusses the key roles that child health policy and advocacy organizations can play in making sure that our public coverage programs for children deliver high quality health care that advances health outcomes and strives for continuous improvement

Innovations in Public Health: Understanding State Public Health

Provides an overview of state public health services -- services provided and outsourced, organizational and accountability structures, and key statutes -- and offers a framework for exploring the scope of the state's role and responsibilities

Descentralization in education - premise of the Romanian education efficiency

Romania is far left behind in what regards education. The regular education and also the higher education are hyper centralized. The chronic sub finance is built into a subject of permanent political dispute. In the latest years there have been made important steps to assure the quality of education, for descentralization and to create a modern institutional medium in education, but to few measures are applied.education, descentralization, efficiency, human resources