Bruno Marchal

Summary

Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine
Country: Belgium

Publications

  1. ncbi Turning around an ailing district hospital: a realist evaluation of strategic changes at Ho Municipal Hospital (Ghana)
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Public Health 10:787. 2010
  2. ncbi Viewpoint: HIV/AIDS and the health workforce crisis: what are the next steps?
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Trop Med Int Health 10:300-4. 2005
  3. ncbi Health workforce imbalances in times of globalization: brain drain or professional mobility?
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Int J Health Plann Manage 18:S89-101. 2003
  4. ncbi A realist evaluation of the management of a well-performing regional hospital in Ghana
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Health Serv Res 10:24. 2010
  5. ncbi Focusing on the software of managing health workers: what can we learn from high commitment management practices?
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
    Int J Health Plann Manage 23:299-311. 2008
  6. ncbi Neglected tropical disease (NTD) control in health systems: the interface between programmes and general health services
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Acta Trop 120:S177-85. 2011
  7. ncbi How to develop a theory-driven evaluation design? Lessons learned from an adolescent sexual and reproductive health programme in West Africa
    Sara B Van Belle
    Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Public Health 10:741. 2010
  8. ncbi Quality standards for health care delivery and management in publicly oriented health services
    Jean Pierre Unger
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Int J Health Plann Manage 18:S79-88. 2003
  9. ncbi Human resources in scaling up HIV/AIDS programmes: just a killer assumption or in need of new paradigms?
    Bruno Marchal
    AIDS 18:2103-5. 2004
  10. ncbi Global human resources crisis
    Bruno Marchal
    Lancet 363:2191-2. 2004

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Publications13

  1. ncbi Turning around an ailing district hospital: a realist evaluation of strategic changes at Ho Municipal Hospital (Ghana)
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Public Health 10:787. 2010
    ..Few studies have shown how HiCom management might contribute to better performance of health services and in particular of hospitals in low and middle-income settings...
  2. ncbi Viewpoint: HIV/AIDS and the health workforce crisis: what are the next steps?
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Trop Med Int Health 10:300-4. 2005
    ..True paradigm shifts are thus required, without which the fundamental changes required to effectively strengthen the health workforce are unlikely to be initiated...
  3. ncbi Health workforce imbalances in times of globalization: brain drain or professional mobility?
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Int J Health Plann Manage 18:S89-101. 2003
    ..Solutions should therefore be based on this wider perspective, interrelating health workforce imbalances between, but also within developing and developed countries...
  4. ncbi A realist evaluation of the management of a well-performing regional hospital in Ghana
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Health Serv Res 10:24. 2010
    ..We report on a realist case study of a well performing hospital in Ghana and show how such a realist evaluation design can help to overcome the limited external validity of a traditional case study...
  5. ncbi Focusing on the software of managing health workers: what can we learn from high commitment management practices?
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
    Int J Health Plann Manage 23:299-311. 2008
    ..Only if these drivers are understood will managers be able to make their HRM practices more responsive to the needs and expectations of the health workers...
  6. ncbi Neglected tropical disease (NTD) control in health systems: the interface between programmes and general health services
    Bruno Marchal
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Acta Trop 120:S177-85. 2011
    ..Focusing on countries in sub-Saharan Africa, we suggest a number of principles that could pave the way for fruitful discussions and development of synergies...
  7. ncbi How to develop a theory-driven evaluation design? Lessons learned from an adolescent sexual and reproductive health programme in West Africa
    Sara B Van Belle
    Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, B 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
    BMC Public Health 10:741. 2010
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  8. ncbi Quality standards for health care delivery and management in publicly oriented health services
    Jean Pierre Unger
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
    Int J Health Plann Manage 18:S79-88. 2003
    ..Using these criteria for a renewed compact between authorities, health professionals and communities may help to motivate health professionals by bridging the gap between their professional and social-political identity...
  9. ncbi Human resources in scaling up HIV/AIDS programmes: just a killer assumption or in need of new paradigms?
    Bruno Marchal
    AIDS 18:2103-5. 2004
  10. ncbi Global human resources crisis
    Bruno Marchal
    Lancet 363:2191-2. 2004
  11. ncbi Going to scale with professional skilled care
    Marge Koblinsky
    ICDDR, B, Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Lancet 368:1377-86. 2006
    ..Teams of providers are the efficient option, creating the possibility of scaling up as much as 10 times more quickly than would be the case with deployment of solo health workers in home deliveries with dedicated or multipurpose workers...
  12. ncbi Measuring unmet obstetric need at district level: how an epidemiological tool can affect health service organization and delivery
    Gabriel Guindo
    Ministry of Health, Koutiala, Mali
    Health Policy Plan 19:i87-i95. 2004
    ..This had not only the effect of triggering consideration of coverage, but also of quality of obstetric care...