A Strategy in Addressing Reproductive Health

Margaret Chan director of WHO defined task shifting as rational distribution of tasks among health workers team where specific tasks are removed from highly qualified health worker to health worker with shorter training and few qualifications. It was a method of strengthening and expanding health workforce to rapidly increase access HIV and other services. Since then, it has been a low-cost solution in tackling gaps in health services (“WHO | Task shifting: global recommendations and guidelines,” 2011). However, it should be implemented alongside other strategies. A Strategy in Addressing Reproductive Health

Task shifting has been a strategy in addressing reproductive health in Kenya. It was adopted to address physicians’ shortage by expanding tasks of associate clinicians to include provision of caesarian section. The strategy assumes that there is underutilization of capacity of clinicians, it is desirable and possible to change priorities of less specialized clinicians to include tasks from doctors and number of specialized health professionals can be increased to accommodate increased responsibilities cost-effectively (Task Sharing Policy Guidelines, 2017).