How Rethinking Health Worker Learning and Performance Management Can Help Reach Zero-Dose Children

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Understanding learning and performance management approaches to improve health worker performance.

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Immunisation programme managers should learn about these new, innovative, evidence-based approaches to health worker performance management and tailor to their unique needs and context.

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When health workers perform well, they’re providing high-quality services, which is crucial for increasing the likelihood of desired health outcomes – and which actually helps to relieve the burden on them to an extent. Widely used traditional lecture-style classroom in-service training and routine supervision have not had the expected impact on health worker performance or quality of care. Therefore, it is worth considering new, innovative approaches to learning and performance management (LPM). Learn some of the specific approaches, implementation considerations, and country case studies in this Vaccines Work story.

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