How does capacity building of health managers work? A realist evaluation study protocol

NS Prashanth, B Marchal, T Hoeree, N Devadasan… - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction There has been a lot of attention on the role of human resource management
interventions to improve delivery of health services in low-and middle-income countries …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of capacity-building program of district health managers in India: a contextualized theoretical framework

NS Prashanth, B Marchal, G Kegels… - Frontiers in public health, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Performance of local health services managers at district level is crucial to ensure that health
services are of good quality and cater to the health needs of the population in the area. In …

A realist evaluation of the management of a well-performing regional hospital in Ghana

B Marchal, MD Dedzo, G Kegels - BMC health services research, 2010 - Springer
Background Realist evaluation offers an interesting approach to evaluation of interventions
in complex settings, but has been little applied in health care. We report on a realist case …

Developing programme theories as part of a realist evaluation of a healthcare quality improvement programme

JL Feather - International Journal of Care Coordination, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The application of realist approaches to health services research and evaluation has
continued to grow over the past two decades. However, difficulties in defining and …

Strengthening nursing, midwifery and allied health professional leadership in the UK–a realist evaluation

C Jackson, T McBride, K Manley, B Dewar… - Leadership in Health …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to share the findings of a realist evaluation study that set out to
identify how to strengthen nursing, midwifery and allied health professions (NMAHP) …

Why do some hospitals perform better than others? A realist evaluation of the role of health workforce management in well-performing health care organisations.

B Marchal - 2011 - researchportal.vub.be
Despite the general aknowledgement of the role of health workforce management in good
performance of health services and programmes, little research has been carried out on this …

Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: a realist evaluation of a capacity building programme for district managers in Tumkur, India

NS Prashanth, B Marchal, N Devadasan… - Health research policy …, 2014 - Springer
Background Health systems interventions, such as capacity-building of health workers, are
implemented across districts in order to improve performance of healthcare organisations …

Human resource management interventions to improve health workers' performance in low and middle income countries: a realist review

M Dieleman, B Gerretsen, GJ van der Wilt - Health Research Policy and …, 2009 - Springer
Background Improving health workers' performance is vital for achieving the Millennium
Development Goals. In the literature on human resource management (HRM) interventions …

Green shoots of recovery: a realist evaluation of a team to support change in general practice

M Bartlett, R Basten, RK McKinley - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective A multidisciplinary support team for general practice was established in April 2014
by a local National Health Service (NHS) England management team. This work evaluates …

The importance of realist synthesis for the interprofessional field

S Reeves - Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Realist synthesis is an increasingly popular approach in reviewing and synthesising
evidence for a range of different interventions and activities in health and social care …