caa a22 4500 467916659 CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-4651-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-4651-3 Aiga Hirotsugu Emergency Needs Assessment Unit (ODAN), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68/70, Parco de'Medici, 00148, Rome, Italy aut Measuring Access to Continuing Professional Education among the Health Workers in Ghana: Constructing an Index [Elektronische Daten] [Hirotsugu Aiga] To measure the levels of access to continuing professional education (CPE) among the health workers, an index (continuing professional education access index: CEAI) was constructed. The CEAI is composed of six indicators: (i) availability of CPE; (ii) distribution of CPE; (iii) informational access; (iv) geographical access; (v) economic access; and (vi) preparedness to release staff. When developing the equation of the CEAI, these six component indicators were weighted in accordance with the order of importance reported by the earlier studies. To test its validity, the CEAI was applied to the CPE status in three regions of Ghana. The results of this application revealed that there was greater discrepancies in the CEAI values according to the type of health facilities. The type of health facilities with the greatest CEAI (= 0.609) implying the best access to CPE was clinics while training/research institutes resulted in the lowest CEAI (= 0.447). Regional variation among the three regions was not significant. A simple linear regression between CEAI and adjusted number of CPE opportunities per health worker produced an extremely high conformity in the model (R2=0.960). This may indicate the validity of the proposed CEAI model to the large extent. Springer, 2006 access to training nationallicence continuing professional education nationallicence Ghana nationallicence human resources nationallicence index nationallicence Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3(2006-07-01), 449-478 0303-8300 77:3<449 2006 77 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4651-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4651-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Aiga Hirotsugu Emergency Needs Assessment Unit (ODAN), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68/70, Parco de'Medici, 00148, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3(2006-07-01), 449-478 0303-8300 77:3<449 2006 77 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer