Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

LIVE: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)
Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Human Resources for Health
Published in: Human Resources for Health 1/2018

Open Access 01-12-2018 | Review

The role of eLearning in health management and leadership capacity building in health system: a systematic review

Authors: Lorainne Tudor Car, Bhone Myint Kyaw, Rifat Atun

Published in: Human Resources for Health | Issue 1/2018

Login to get access

Abstract

Background

Health leadership and management are essential for ensuring resilient health systems. Relevant training opportunities are often scarce, and the use of digital education could help address this gap. Our aim was to assess the effectiveness of eLearning for healthcare leadership and management capacity building.

Methods

We performed a systematic review on the effectiveness of eLearning for health leadership and management training. We also reviewed literature on relevant competencies and training programmes. We conceptualise the role of health leadership and management capacity building in health system strengthening and explore the use of eLearning in this area.

Results

No evidence was found on the effectiveness of eLearning for health leadership and management capacity guiding. Evidence on health leadership and management education effectiveness in general is scarce and descriptive and reports learning outcomes. We explore how various forms of eLearning can help meet specific requirements of health leadership and management training.

Conclusions

Literature on the effectiveness of health leadership and management education is scarce. The use of eLearning could support this type of training by making it more accessible and tailored. Future research should be carried out in diverse settings, assume experimental designs, evaluate the use of information technology and report health system outcomes.
Appendix
Available only for authorised users
Literature
1.
Bradley EH, Taylor LA, Cuellar CJ. Management matters: a leverage point for health systems strengthening in global health. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015;4:411–5.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
2.
Dorros GL. Building health management capacity to rapidly scale up health services and health outcomes. 2007.
3.
Atun R. Health systems, systems thinking and innovation. Health Policy Plann. 2012;4:iv4-8.
4.
WHO. Strengthening management capacity: Geneva. World Health Organization; 2007.
5.
WHO. Global strategy on human resources for health: workforce 2030: Geneva. World Health Organization; 2016.
6.
WHO. Making health systems work series: Geneva. World Health Organization; 2007.
7.
Darr KJ. Management education in public health: further considerations comment on management matters: a leverage point for health systems strengthening in global health. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015;4:861–3.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
8.
Dovlo D. Does management really matter? And if so, to who?: comment on management matters: a leverage point for health systems strengthening in global health. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015;5:141–3.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
9.
Willacy E, Bratton S. On management matters: why we must improve public health management through action: comment on management matters: a leverage point for health systems strengthening in global health. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015;5:63–5.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
10.
Spehar I, Sjøvik H, Karevold KI, Rosvold EO, Frich JC. General practitioners’ views on leadership roles and challenges in primary health care: a qualitative study. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2017;35:105–10.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
11.
Negandhi P, Negandhi H, Tiwari R, Sharma K, Zodpey SP, Quazi Z, et al. Building interdisciplinary leadership skills among health practitioners in the twenty-first century: an innovative training model. Front Public Health. 2015;3:221.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
12.
George PP, Papachristou N, Belisario JM, Wang W, Wark PA, Cotic Z, et al. Online eLearning for undergraduates in health professions: a systematic review of the impact on knowledge, skills, attitudes and satisfaction. J Glob Health. 2014;4:010406.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
13.
Rasmussen K, Belisario JM, Wark PA, Molina JA, Loong SL, Cotic Z, et al. Offline eLearning for undergraduates in health professions: a systematic review of the impact on knowledge, skills, attitudes and satisfaction. J Glob Health. 2014;4:010405.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
14.
Buchbinder SB, Shanks NH. Introduction to healthcare management: Massachusetts. Jones and Bartlett Publishers Inc; 2007.
15.
Kotter JP, John P. Kotter on what leaders really do: Boston. Harvard Business School Press; 1999.
16.
Labonte R, Laverack G. Capacity building in health promotion, part 1: for whom? And for what purpose? Crit Public Health. 2001;11:111–27.CrossRef
17.
18.
HRH. Human resources for health action framework (HAF): A guide to develop and implement strategies to achieve an effective and sustainable health workforce. 2009.
19.
PEPFAR. Capacity building and strengthening framework. In: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; 2012.
20.
Development USAfI. LMG project conceptual model: leading, managing and governing for results. 2013.
21.
WHO. Health workers: a global profile. In: The World Health Report: Geneva World Health Organization; 2006.
22.
Berghout MA, Fabbricotti IN, Buljac-Samardžić M, Hilders CGJM. Medical leaders or masters?—a systematic review of medical leadership in hospital settings. PLoS One. 2017;12:e0184522.
23.
Frich JC, Brewster AL, Cherlin EJ, Bradley EH. Leadership development programs for physicians: a systematic review. J Gen Intern Med. 2015;30:656–74.CrossRefPubMed
24.
Careau E, Biba G, Brander R, Van Dijk JP, Verma S, Paterson M, et al. Health leadership education programs, best practices, and impact on learners’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors and system change: a literature review. J Healthc Leadersh. 2014;6:39–50.
25.
Pihlainen V, Kivinen T, Lammintakanen J. Management and leadership competence in hospitals: a systematic literature review. Leadersh Health Serv. 2016;29(1):95–110.
26.
Busari JO, Berkenbosch L, Brouns JW. Physicians as managers of health care delivery and the implications for postgraduate medical training: a literature review. Teach Learn Med. 2011;23:186–96.CrossRefPubMed
27.
Edmonstone JD. Whither the elephant?: the continuing development of clinical leadership in the UK National Health Services. Int J Health Plann Manag. 2014;29:280–91.CrossRef
28.
Czabanowska K, Smith T, Könings KD, Sumskas L, Otok R, Bjegovic-Mikanovic V, et al. In search for a public health leadership competency framework to support leadership curriculum–a consensus study. Eur J Pub Health. 2014;24:850–6.CrossRef
29.
30.
31.
32.
Judith Daire . Developing leadership and management competencies in low and middle-income country health systems: a review of the literature (Working paper 4). 2014.
33.
West MA, Armit K, Loewenthal L, Eckert R, West T, Lee A. Leadership and leadership development in healthcare: the evidence base. 2015.
34.
Webb AM, Tsipis NE, McClellan TR, McNeil MJ, Xu M, Doty JP, et al. A first step toward understanding best practices in leadership training in undergraduate medical education: a systematic review. Acad Med. 2014;89:1563–70.CrossRefPubMed
35.
Hartley J, Martin J, Benington J. Leadership in healthcare: a review of the literature for health care professionals, managers and researchers. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: e National Coordinating Centre for the Service Delivery and Organisation (NCCSDO); 2008.
36.
37.
Perry C. Empowering primary care workers to improve health services: results from Mozambique’s leadership and management development program. Hum Resour Health. 2008;6:14.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
38.
39.
O'Neil M, Seims LR, Cheburet S, Dedzo M, Vriesendorp S, Sapati B, et al. Leadership and management to empower the health workforce; in 2013;
40.
Ousman K, Polomano RC, Seloilwe E, Odero T, Tarimo E, Mashalla YJ, et al. Interprofessional fellowship training for emerging global health leaders in Africa to improve HIV prevention and care: the Afya Bora Consortium. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2016;27:331–43.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
41.
Monroe-Wise A, Mashalla Y, O’Malley G, Nathanson N, Seloilwe E, Gachuno O, et al. Training tomorrow’s leaders in global health: impact of the Afya Bora Consortium Fellowship on the careers of its alumni. BMC Med Educ. 2016;16:241.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
42.
Nakanjako D, Namagala E, Semeere A, Kigozi J, Sempa J, Ddamulira JB, et al. Global health leadership training in resource-limited settings: a collaborative approach by academic institutions and local health care programs in Uganda. Hum Resour Health. 2015;13:87.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
43.
44.
Emmerick IC, Chaves LA, Marin N, Luiza VL. Strengthening the capacity of managers in pharmaceutical services based on primary health care (PHC) at different levels of the health system. Hum Resour Health. 2014;12:34.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
45.
Stutsky BJ, Spence Laschinger HK. Developing leadership practices in hospital-based nurse educators in an online learning community. Comput Inform Nurs. 2014;32:43–9.CrossRefPubMed
46.
Lucardie AT, Berkenbosch L, van den Berg J, Busari JO. Flipping the classroom to teach Millennial residents medical leadership: a proof of concept. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2017;8:57–61.
47.
48.
Curtis LM, Marx JH. Untapped resources: exploring the need to invest in doctor of public health–degree training and leadership development. Am J Public Health. 2008;98:1547–9.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
Frehywot S, Vovides Y, Talib Z, Mikhail N, Ross H, Wohltjen H, et al. E-learning in medical education in resource constrained low- and middle-income countries. Hum Resour Health. 2013;11:4–4.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral
58.
Asghari M, Kazemi A, Alizadeh M, Heidarzadeh S, Asghari F, Safari H, et al. The challenges of E-learning faces in medical sciences education from the viewpoints of the academic staff. Future Med Educ J. 2012;2:8–12.
Metadata
Title
The role of eLearning in health management and leadership capacity building in health system: a systematic review
Authors
Lorainne Tudor Car
Bhone Myint Kyaw
Rifat Atun
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Human Resources for Health / Issue 1/2018
Electronic ISSN: 1478-4491
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-018-0305-9

Other articles of this Issue 1/2018

Human Resources for Health 1/2018 Go to the issue

Research

Four-year review of presenteeism data among employees of a large United States health care system: a retrospective prevalence study

Research

Supportive supervision and constructive relationships with healthcare workers support CHW performance: Use of a qualitative framework to evaluate CHW programming in Uganda

Review

Migration motives and integration of international human resources of health in the United Kingdom: systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies using framework analysis

Research

Improving local health through community health workers in Cambodia: challenges and solutions

Research

“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria

Research

Performance-based financing kick-starts motivational “feedback loop”: findings from a process evaluation in Mozambique