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The performance of community health workers (CHWs) in Swaziland has not yet been studied despite the existence of a large national CHW program in the country. This qualitative formative research study aimed to...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:68
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Similar to many places, physicians in Senegal are unevenly distributed. Telemedicine is considered a potential solution to this problem. This study investigated the perceptions of Senegal’s physicians of the i...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:67
Published on: 18 September 2017
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In Japan, the field of Basic Sciences encompasses clinical, academic, and translational research, as well as the teaching of medical sciences, with both an MD and PhD typically required. In this study, it was ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:65
Published on: 15 September 2017
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In Japan, the shortage of physicians has been recognized as a major medical issue. In our previous study, we reported that the absolute shortage will be resolved in the long term, but maldistribution among spe...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:64
Published on: 12 September 2017
Review
The prevalence of chronic illness and multimorbidity rises with population aging, thereby increasing the acuity of care. Consequently, the demand for emergency and critical care services has increased. However...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:63
Published on: 11 September 2017
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The global economic crisis saw recessionary conditions in most EU countries. Ireland’s severe recession produced pro-cyclical health spending cuts. Yet, human resources for health (HRH) are the most critical o...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:62
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Option B+ for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV (i.e., lifelong antiretroviral treatment for all pregnant and breastfeeding mothers living with HIV) was initiated in Tanzania in 201...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:61
Published on: 6 September 2017
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The critical shortage of human resources in health is a critical public health problem affecting most low- and middle-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to the shortage of health...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:60
Published on: 4 September 2017
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Regular supportive supervision is critical to retaining and motivating staff in resource-constrained settings. Previous studies have shown the particular contribution that supportive supervision can make to im...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:58
Published on: 2 September 2017
Review
Health systems are social institutions, in which health worker performance is shaped by transactional processes between different actors.
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:59
Published on: 2 September 2017
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A systematic and structured approach to the support and supervision of health workers can strengthen the human resource management function at the district and health facility levels and may help address the c...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:57
Published on: 30 August 2017
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Literature reports a direct relation between nurses’ job satisfaction and their job retention (stickiness). The proper planning and management of the nursing labor market necessitates the understanding of job ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:55
Published on: 29 August 2017
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Attaining the perfect balance of health care resources is probably impracticable; however, it is possible to achieve improvements in the distribution of these resources. In terms of the distribution of health ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:56
Published on: 29 August 2017
Methodology
One of the keys to improving health globally is promoting mothers’ adoption of healthy home practices for improved nutrition and illness prevention in the first 1000 days of life from conception. Customarily, ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:54
Published on: 23 August 2017
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Most sub-Saharan African countries struggle to make safe surgery accessible to rural populations due to a shortage of qualified surgeons and the unlikelihood of retaining them in district hospitals. In 2002, Z...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:53
Published on: 22 August 2017
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The geographical maldistribution of the health workforce is a persisting global issue linked to inequitable access to health services and poorer health outcomes for rural and remote populations. In the Norther...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:52
Published on: 15 August 2017
Case study
The introduction of a systematic framework for the licensing of health care professions, which is a crucial step in ensuring the quality of human resources for health (HRH), is still evolving in Lao People’s D...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:51
Published on: 7 August 2017
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Health reform in China since 2009 has emphasized basic public health services to enhance the function of Community Health Services as a primary health care facility. A variety of studies have documented these ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:50
Published on: 4 August 2017
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the gap between the available and the ideal supply of human resources (physicians, nurses, and health promoters) to deliver the guaranteed package of prevention and he...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:49
Published on: 3 August 2017
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In 2013, the World Health Organization issued guidelines, Transforming and Scaling Up Health Professional Education and Training, to improve the quality and relevance of health professional pre-service education....
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:48
Published on: 24 July 2017
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Despite its importance, the field of human resources for health (HRH) has lagged in developing methods to measure its status and progress in low- and middle-income countries suffering a workforce crisis. Measu...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:47
Published on: 19 July 2017
Methodology
A competent, enabled and efficiently deployed health workforce is crucial to the achievement of the health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs). Methods for workforce planning have tended to focus on ‘...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:46
Published on: 4 July 2017
Review
Many countries have created community-based health worker (CHW) programs for HIV. In most of these countries, several national and non-governmental initiatives have been implemented raising questions of how we...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:45
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are community health workers tasked to deliver health prevention in communities and link them with the health care sector. This paper examines the social, cultural, a...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:44
Published on: 1 July 2017
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Health workforce planning is based on estimates of future needs for and supply of health care services. Given the pipeline time lag for the training of health professionals, inappropriate workforce planning or...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:43
Published on: 28 June 2017
