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Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:27
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A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India
India has the largest cohort of community health workers with one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). ASHAs play vital role in providing health education and promoting accessible health care se...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:26 -
Methods for health workforce projection model: systematic review and recommended good practice reporting guideline
Health workforce projection models are integral components of a robust healthcare system. This research aims to review recent advancements in methodology and approaches for health workforce projection models a...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:25 -
Approaches to locum physician recruitment and retention: a systematic review
A robust workforce of locum tenens (LT) physicians is imperative for health service stability. A systematic review was conducted to synthesize current evidence on the strategies used to facilitate the recruitm...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:24 -
The impact of incentive scheme on rural healthcare workforce availability: a case study of Kazakhstan
During the 1990–2000, Kazakhstan experienced a decline in the number of healthcare professionals working in rural areas. Since 2009, the national government has been implementing financial incentives to encour...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:23 -
Cost-effectiveness of severe acute malnutrition treatment delivered by community health workers in the district of Mayahi, Niger
A non-randomized controlled trial, conducted from June 2018 to March 2019 in two rural communes in the health district of Mayahi in Niger, showed that including community health workers (CHWs) in the treatment...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:22 -
A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators of telemedicine volunteerism during the COVID-19 pandemic in India
The COVID-19 pandemic further propelled the recent growth of telemedicine in low-resource countries, with new models of telemedicine emerging, including volunteer-based telemedicine networks. By leveraging exi...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:21 -
Primary care providers’ preferences for pay-for-performance programs: a discrete choice experiment study in Shandong China
Pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes are commonly used to incentivize primary healthcare (PHC) providers to improve the quality of care they deliver. However, the effectiveness of P4P schemes can vary depending o...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:20 -
Ophthalmology workforce over a decade in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: demographics, distribution, and future challenges
The ophthalmology workforce is an integral component of any health care system. However, the demand for eye care has imposed a heavy burden on this system. Hence, this study aimed to estimate the trends, demog...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:19 -
“Family doctors are also people”: a qualitative analysis of how family physicians managed competing personal and professional responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Family physicians (FPs) fill an essential role in public health emergencies yet have frequently been neglected in pandemic response plans. This exclusion harms FPs in their clinical roles and has unintended co...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:18 -
Global migration and factors influencing retention of Asian internationally educated nurses: a systematic review
Given nurses’ increasing international mobility, Asian internationally educated nurses (IENs) represent a critical human resource highly sought after within the global healthcare workforce. Developed countries...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:17 -
“Superheroes? No, thanks.” Accepting vulnerability in healthcare professionals
In this commentary, we develop a conceptual proposal aimed to explain why a discourse of praise and admiration for healthcare professionals´ limitless dedication can trigger a general indifference to the burno...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:16 -
Feminization of the health workforce in China: exploring gendered composition from 2002 to 2020
Feminization of health workforce has been globally documented, but it has not been investigated in China. This study aims to analyze changes in the gendered composition of health workforce and explore the tren...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:15 -
Emotional labor and burnout among nurses in Iran: core self-evaluations as mediator and moderator
This study investigated the mediating and moderating impact of core self-evaluations in the path from emotional labor to burnout. Our hypothesized associations are based on Hobfoll (Rev Gen Psychol 6:307–24, 2...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:14 -
Deconcentrating regulation in low- and middle-income country health systems: a proposed ambidextrous solution to problems with professional regulation for doctors and nurses in Kenya and Uganda
Regulation can improve professional practice and patient care, but is often weakly implemented and enforced in health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Taking a de-centred and frontline pers...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:13 -
Effects of intensive care unit quality assessment on changes in medical staff in medical institutions and in-hospital mortality
Quality assessments are being introduced in many countries to improve the quality of care and maintain acceptable quality levels. In South Korea, various quality assessments are being conducted to improve the ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:12 -
Correction: Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:11 -
Impacts for health and care workers of Covid-19 and other public health emergencies of international concern: living systematic review, meta-analysis and policy recommendations
Health and care workers (HCW) faced the double burden of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: as members of a society affected by a public health emergency and as HWC who experienced fear of becoming infected and of infec...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:10 -
What can we learn from general practitioners who left Spain? A mixed methods international study
International mobility of health workforce affects the performance of health systems and has major relevance in human resources for health policy and planning. To date, there has been little research exploring...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:9 -
Engaging leadership and nurse well-being: the role of the work environment and work motivation—a cross-sectional study
Healthcare literature suggests that leadership behavior has a profound impact on nurse work-related well-being. Yet, more research is needed to better conceptualize, measure, and analyse the concepts of leader...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:8 -
Correction: The transition of human resources for health information systems from the MDGs into the SDGs and the post-pandemic era: reviewing the evidence from 2000 to 2022
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:7 -
Establishment of clinical pharmacy services: evidence-based information from stakeholders
High morbidity and mortality related to the use of drugs resulted in demand for clinical pharmacy services (CPS) globally. In developed countries, the evolution of pharmacists’ role in direct patient care star...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:6 -
Comparison of medical students' considerations in choosing a specialty: 2020 vs. 2009/10
Workforce shortage in healthcare and particularly in physicians poses a threat to healthcare delivery and its quality. In comparison to other OECD countries, Israel currently has a small number of medical grad...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:5 -
A Delphi consensus study to determine the workload components and activity standards of dietitians in South Africa’s central and tertiary public hospitals
The global Human Resources for Health (HRH) strategy emphasizes the need to invest in HRH to meet population needs and improve the provision of quality health care services. In South Africa, dietitians are rec...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:4 -
The UK prosthetic and orthotic workforce: current status and implications for the future
Prosthetists and orthotists (POs) are the smallest of the 14 allied health profession (AHP) workforces within NHS England. Obtaining data on the workforce has always been challenging due to this information be...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:3 -
Hesitancy among Iranian nursing students regarding future career trajectory: a qualitative analysis
The shortage of skilled nurses is a major concern for health systems worldwide. This may be partly due to the hesitancy of some nurses to enter or remain in the nursing career. This shortage consequently reduc...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:2 -
Factors affecting the quality of working life among nurses caring for Syrian refugee camps in Jordan
The global refugee crisis, exacerbated by the Syrian war, has placed tremendous strain on Jordan’s healthcare system and infrastructure, notably impacting nurses working in refugee camps. The aim to identify f...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:1 -
Health expenditure: how much is spent on health and care worker remuneration? An analysis of 33 low- and middle-income African countries
To assess the amount spent on health and care workforce (HCW) remuneration in the African countries, its importance as a proportion of country expenditure on health, and government involvement as a funding sou...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:96 -
Professional care workforce: a rapid review of evidence supporting methods of recruitment, retention, safety, and education
Across the care economy there are major shortages in the health and care workforce, as well as high rates of attrition and ill-defined career pathways. The aim of this study was to evaluate current evidence re...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:95 -
Human resource management research in healthcare: a big data bibliometric study
Human resource management (HRM) in healthcare is an important component in relation to the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. However, a comprehensive overview is lacking to assess and track the cu...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:94 -
The transition of human resources for health information systems from the MDGs into the SDGs and the post-pandemic era: reviewing the evidence from 2000 to 2022
This review paper offers a policy-tracing trend analysis of national experiences among low- and middle-income countries in strengthening human resources for health information systems (HRHIS). This paper draws...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:93 -
The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
The turnover and shortage of health care workers (HCWs) have been a worldwide problem for healthcare organizations. The primary aim of this study was to identify the factors influencing the intention of Chines...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:92 -
Nurses’ job preferences for working in deprived areas in Tehran: a discrete choice experiment
In Iran, the issue of the nursing shortage and unequal distribution exist simultaneously. The shortage of healthcare workers is one of the most important concerns of the health systems. In addition, the dispar...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:91 -
Characterising support and care assistants in formal hospital settings: a scoping review
A 15 million health workforce shortage is still experienced globally leading to a sub-optimal healthcare worker-to-population ratio in most countries. The use of low-skilled care assistants has been suggested ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:90 -
Evaluating the effectiveness of Uganda’s Supranational TB Reference Laboratory quality management system training program
Achieving the targeted organizational goals through effective training can increase employee satisfaction. Since 2015, the Supranational Reference Laboratory Uganda (SRL Uganda) has trained National Tuberculos...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:89 -
The faces behind vaccination: unpacking the attitudes, knowledge, and practices of staff of Cameroon’s Expanded program on Immunization
Immunization is regarded as one of the most cost-effective public health interventions in global health. However, its cost-effectiveness depends greatly on the knowledge and skills of vaccinators. With the gro...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:88 -
National Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training needs of pharmacists in Ethiopia
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in pharmacy is a lifelong learning approach whereby individual pharmacists are responsible for updating and broadening their knowledge, skills, and attitudes. This is ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:87 -
What is the impact of integrated care on the job satisfaction of primary healthcare providers: a systematic review
The integration of care influenced the job satisfaction of healthcare professionals, especially affecting primary healthcare providers (PCPs). This study aimed to perform a systematic review to explore the imp...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:86 -
Factors associated with regional retention of physicians: a cross-sectional online survey of medical students and graduates in Japan
Physician shortage and maldistribution is an urgent health policy issue requiring resolution. Determination of factors associated with regional retention and development of effective policy interventions will ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:85 -
Factors influencing practice choices of early-career family physicians in Canada: a qualitative interview study
Comprehensiveness of primary care has been declining, and much of the blame has been placed on early-career family physicians and their practice choices. To better understand early-career family physicians’ pr...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:84 -
Factors associated with retention of health workers in remote public health centers in Northern Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Health worker retention in remote and hard-to-reach areas remains a threat in most low- and middle-income countries, and this negatively impacts health service delivery. The health workforce inequity is catast...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:83 -
Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review
Violence against healthcare workers recently became a growing public health concern and has been intensively investigated, particularly in the tertiary setting. Nevertheless, little is known of workplace viole...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:82 -
Resilience, sense of danger, and reporting in wartime: a cross-sectional study of healthcare personnel in a general hospital
Maintaining healthcare services and ensuring the presence of healthcare personnel (HCP) during periods of conflict and high-intensity warfare in Israel including the significant security event that occurred on...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:81 -
Implementation of policy and management interventions to improve health and care workforce capacity to address the COVID-19 pandemic response: a systematic review
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted pre-existing weaknesses in health and care systems and services and shortages of health and care workers (HCWs). As a result, policymakers needed to adopt measures to improve ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:80 -
Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada
Health workforce planning has become a significant global problem considering there are estimates of an 18 million healthcare provider shortfall by 2030. There are two mechanisms to address healthcare worker s...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:79 -
Correction: Expanding Community Health Worker decision space: learning from a Participatory Action Research training intervention in a rural South African district
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:78 -
Gender inequity in the medical profession: the women doctors in Spain (WOMEDS) study
The long-standing underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in medicine is well-known, but poorly documented globally. There is some evidence of the gender gap in academia, medical society leadershi...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:77 -
Psychosocial status and risk perception among Iranian healthcare workers during the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are essential resources, and their health and wellbeing are key not only for offering constant and useful care facilities to clients, but also for maintaining the safety of the workfo...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:76 -
Managing uncertainty in forecasting health workforce demand using the Robust Workforce Planning Framework: the example of midwives in Belgium
In Belgium, the Planning Commission for Medical Supply is responsible for monitoring human resources for health (HRH) and ultimately proposing workforce quotas. It is supported by the Planning Unit for the Sup...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:75 -
Self-reported continuing professional development needs of medical laboratory professionals in Ghana
Because of the essential nature of the work of medical laboratory professionals, continuing development in knowledge and skills is indispensable. The study aimed at identifying and prioritizing the development...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:74
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