Using field visits to improve the quality of family planning, health, and nutrition programs : a supervisor ' s manual

About

Countries

Data & Research

Learning

News

Projects & Operations

Publications

Topics

Home > Data & Research > Document Search > Report Details

Using field visits to improve the quality of family planning, health, and nutrition programs : a supervisor's manual, Volume 1

Author:	Heaver, Richard;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research, and External Affairs working papers ; no. WPS 797. Population, health, and nutrition
Date Stored:	2001/04/26	Document Date:	1991/10/31
Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper	Language:	English
Major Sector:	(Historic)Health, Nutrition & Population	Report Number:	WPS797
Sub Sectors:	Primary Health, Including Reproductive Health, Chi	SubTopics:	Regional Rural Development; Housing & Human Habitats; Health Systems Development & Reform; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems
Volume No:	1

Summary: Most health professionals who have worked in rural areas have had the experience of being supervised badly: the flying visit by a superior who inspects the records, delivers a critical speech, and disappears without ever finding out what is really going on in the health center area. Such visits seem designed more to demonstrate the supervisor's authority than to help the field worker to serve local people better. This manual is designed to help field supervisors supervise in a way that deepens insights into local situations, supports health workers, and focuses on improving the quality of service to the poor. The checklist of questions is not intended to be definitive or rigidly applied. Depending on the needs of a given program, some areas may need to be probed more deeply, and others shortened or omitted altogether. The author provides guidelines for: planning visits to a program area; visiting villages and talking with mothers; visiting health care workers; visiting nutrition workers; and using findings to make changes in program design or implementation, to reorient the way supervision is done, and to change worker behavior. He also provides a sample field visit report.


Official Documents Official, scanned versions of documents (may include signatures, etc.)
File Type		Description	File Size (mb)

	PDF 25 pages	Official version*	1.75 (approx.)
	Text	Text version**

* The official version is derived from scanning the final, paper copy of the document and is the official,
archived version including all signatures, charts, etc.

** The text version is the OCR text of the final scanned version and is not an accurate representation of the final text.
It is provided solely to benefit users with slow connectivity.

Permanent URL for this page: http://go.worldbank.org/RHJ1IUIU00