While the government continues its efforts to increase the number of qualified female health professionals in Afghanistan after decades with little female education, innovative strategies are needed to facilitate deployment, skill-development and retention of female healthcare providers in underserved areas.
As a large literature in STS has shown very often, what is missing, is a deep consideration of changes in work practices, skill deployment, or complementary skills, induced by technological change.
Team working improved patients' access to primary care (Marsh, 1991) and the deployment of skills and expertise (Marsh, 1991; Hasler, 1994; Bradley, 1996), producing more cost-effective services (Marsh, 1991).
Appropriate strategies to ensure training quality, rational deployment, retention, skill mix and appropriate regulation of health workers is also needed.
The under-skilled need to stretch the deployment of their skills to reach the minimum required by their jobs.
They argue that perception is a kind of skillful activity which essentially involves the deployment of sensorimotor skills in exploring the environment.
In order to do so, the optimal skill deployment of over- and under-skilled workers should be compared to the counterfactual of their being well-matched.
It is a masterful act of casual deployment of unmatched skills.
This attitudinal fallacy is referred to as "skills deployment assumption" (Stratman, 1990).
Amazon's approach is less me-too than a methodical deployment of its skills in knowing what people want almost before they know themselves, often by looking hard at customer data.
