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COVID-19 and doctor emigration: the case of Ireland

Since the 2008 recession, Ireland has experienced large-scale doctor emigration. This paper seeks to ascertain whether (and how) the COVID-19 pandemic might disrupt or reinforce existing patterns of doctor emi...

Authors: Niamh Humphries, Jennifer Creese, John-Paul Byrne and John Connell

Task-shifting to improve asthma education for Malawian children: a qualitative analysis

Asthma education, a key component of long-term asthma management, is challenging in resource-limited settings with shortages of clinical staff. Task-shifting educational roles to lay (non-clinical) staff is a ...

Authors: Lovemore Nkhalamba, Sarah Rylance, Adamson S. Muula, Kevin Mortimer and Felix Limbani

Reflecting on the current scenario and forecasting the future demand for medical doctors in South Africa up to 2030: towards equal representation of women

Increasing feminization of medical professions is well-acknowledged. However, this does not always equate to equitable representation of women within medicine, regarding their socio-demographic indicators, reg...

Authors: Ritika Tiwari, Angelique Wildschut-February, Lungiswa Nkonki, René English, Innocent Karangwa and Usuf Chikte

Optimizing the contributions of nursing and midwifery workforces: #Protect, #Invest, #Together

Authors: James Buchan, James Campbell and Carey McCarthy

Interprofessional collaboration among health professionals in cleft lip and palate treatment and care in the public health sector of South Africa

Collaboration among different categories of health professionals is essential for quality patient care, especially for individuals with cleft lip and palate (CLP). This study examined interprofessional collabo...

Authors: Phumzile Hlongwa and Laetitia C. Rispel

Outcomes, mechanisms and contextual factors of positive psychology interventions for health workers: a systematic review of global evidence

Interventions using positive psychology (PP), which build on positive qualities of healthcare personnel and institutions, could potentially enhance organisational performance in healthcare. The aim of this sys...

Authors: Maartje Kletter, Bronwyn Harris and Celia Brown

Current status and related factors of turnover intention of primary medical staff in Anhui Province, China: a cross-sectional study

The shortage of primary medical staff is an important issue in the management of health human resources, and it is also a problem that all countries in the world need to face together. Since 2009, China has im...

Authors: Guimei Chen, Lingzhi Sang, Jian Rong, Huosheng Yan, Hongzhang Liu, Jing Cheng, Li Wang, Hong Ding and Ren Chen

An analysis of the services provided by community health workers within an urban district in South Africa: a key contribution towards universal access to care

Community health worker teams are potential game-changers in ensuring access to care in vulnerable communities. Who are they? What do they actually do? Can they help South Africa realize universal health coverage...

Authors: L. S. Thomas, E. Buch and Y. Pillay

Predictive factors of the general public’s willingness to be seen and seek treatment from a nurse practitioner in Australia: a cross-sectional national survey

Health care delivery in Australia is experiencing challenges with services struggling to keep up with the increasing demands of an aging population, rising levels of chronic disease and limited funding for car...

Authors: Trudy Dwyer, Alison Craswell and Matthew Browne

Trend and equity of general practitioners’ allocation in China based on the data from 2012–2017

General practitioners are the gatekeepers of the health of the residents. This study aims to evaluate the trend and equity of general practitioners' allocation from 2012 to 2017 in China and provide a reference f...

Authors: Qianqian Yu, Wenqiang Yin, Dongmei Huang, Kui Sun, Zhongming Chen, Hongwei Guo and Di Wu

Nurses in advanced roles as a strategy for equitable access to healthcare in the WHO Western Pacific region: a mixed methods study

The Western Pacific region constitutes one-quarter of the world’s population and has diverse health needs. While dialogue on and promotion of advanced practice nurses are ongoing, this study investigated the c...

Authors: Sue Kim, Tae Wha Lee, Gwang Suk Kim, Eunhee Cho, Yeonsoo Jang, Mona Choi, Seoyoung Baek, David Lindsay, Sally Chan, Regina L. T. Lee, Aimin Guo, Frances Kam Yuet Wong, Doris Yu, Sek Ying Chair, Yoko Shimpuku, Sonoe Mashino…

Working towards universal health coverage: a qualitative study to identify strategies for improving student enrolment for the pre-service training of nurses, midwives and community health workers in Nigerian health training institutions

Student enrolment processes and practices can affect the quality of pre-service training programmes. These processes and practices may have serious implications for the quality and quantity of students within ...

Authors: Ekechi Okereke and Babatunde Ahonsi

Transforming UNICEF’s approach to health system strengthening: what place can a blended learning course play?

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published their Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) approach to meet its strategic goals of ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths and promoting the he...

Authors: Lucio Naccarella, Barbara McPake, Prarthna Dayal, Waithira Gikonyo, Claudia Vivas Torrealba and Alison Morgan

Recruitment, training and supervision of nurses and nurse assistants for a task-shifting depression intervention in two RCTs in Brazil and Peru

Task-shifting and technology in psychological interventions are two solutions to increasing access to mental health intervention and overcoming the treatment gap in low and middle-income countries. The CONEMO ...

Authors: Thais Izabel Ugeda Rocha, Suzana Crismanis de Almeida Lopes Aschar, Liliana Hidalgo-Padilla, Kate Daley, Heloísa Garcia Claro, Hellen Carolina Martins Castro, Daniela Vera Cruz dos Santos, J. Jaime Miranda, Ricardo Araya and Paulo Rossi Menezes

Regulating health professional scopes of practice: comparing institutional arrangements and approaches in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK

Fundamentally, the goal of health professional regulatory regimes is to ensure the highest quality of care to the public. Part of that task is to control what health professionals do, or their scope of practice. ...

Authors: Kathleen Leslie, Jean Moore, Chris Robertson, Douglas Bilton, Kristine Hirschkorn, Margaret H. Langelier and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

The effect of an mLearning application on nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge and skills for the management of postpartum hemorrhage and neonatal resuscitation: pre–post intervention study

Globally, mobile learning (mLearning) tools have attracted considerable attention as a means of continuous training for healthcare workers. Rwanda like other low-resource settings with scarce in-service traini...

Authors: Aurore Nishimwe, Latifat Ibisomi, Marc Nyssen and Daphney Nozizwe Conco

Who could be One Health Activist at the community level?: A case for India

Community health workers (CHWs) are the mainstay of the public health system, serving for decades in low-resource countries. Their multi-dimensional work in various health care services, including the preventi...

Authors: Sandul Yasobant, Walter Bruchhausen, Deepak Saxena, Farjana Zakir Memon and Timo Falkenberg

Development of accreditation standards for interprofessional education: a Canadian Case Study

Academic institutions worldwide are embedding interprofessional education (IPE) into their health/social services education programs in response to global evidence that this leads to interprofessional collabor...

Authors: Ruby E. Grymonpre, Lesley Bainbridge, Louise Nasmith and Cynthia Baker

Caring Behaviors Inventory-24: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing for use in a Swedish context

Patients’ health and wellbeing are promoted when nurses successfully conceptualize caring in clinical practice. Measuring caring behaviors can advance knowledge about caring and has potential to improve caring...

Authors: Anna Klarare, Mona Söderlund, Anna Wikman, Jenny McGreevy, Elisabet Mattsson and Andreas Rosenblad

Tools for measuring medical internship experience: a scoping review

Appropriate and well-resourced medical internship training is important to ensure psychological health and well-being of doctors in training and also to recruit and retain these doctors. However, most reviews ...

Authors: Yingxi Zhao, Peris Musitia, Mwanamvua Boga, David Gathara, Catia Nicodemo and Mike English

Interprofessional education and collaborative practice policies and law: an international review and reflective questions

Healthcare is a complex sociolegal setting due to the number of policymakers, levels of governance and importance of policy interdependence. As a desirable care approach, collaborative practice (referred to as...

Authors: Marie-Andrée Girard

Workplace violence toward resident doctors in public hospitals of Syria: prevalence, psychological impact, and prevention strategies: a cross-sectional study

Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers is a common and daily problem in hospitals worldwide. Studies in different countries indicated that exposure to WPV potentially impacts the psychological sta...

Authors: Okbah Mohamad, Naseem AlKhoury, Mohammad-Nasan Abdul-Baki, Marah Alsalkini and Rafea Shaaban

Interplaying role of healthcare activist and homemaker: a mixed-methods exploration of the workload of community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists) in India

Globally, community health workers (CHWs) are integral contributors to many health systems. In India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) have been deployed since 2005. Engaged in multiple health care a...

Authors: Anand Kawade, Manisha Gore, Pallavi Lele, Uddhavi Chavan, Hilary Pinnock, Pam Smith and Sanjay Juvekar

Preparing the healthcare workforce in South Africa for short-course rifampicin-resistant TB treatment: inter-professional training and task-sharing considerations

Treatment for rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (RR-TB) is complex, however, shorter treatment, with newer antimicrobials are improving treatment outcomes. The South African National Department of H...

Authors: Jason E. Farley, Norbert Ndjeka, Khaya Mlandu, Kelly Lowensen, Keri Geiger, Yen Nguyen, Chakra Budhathoki and Paul D. Stamper

What do we mean by individual capacity strengthening for primary health care in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic scoping review to improve conceptual clarity

Capacity strengthening of primary health care workers is widely used as a means to strengthen health service delivery, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite the widespread recognition of th...

Authors: Mairéad Finn, Brynne Gilmore, Greg Sheaf and Frédérique Vallières

Approaches to motivate physicians and nurses in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review

Poor health worker motivation, and the resultant shortages and geographic imbalances of providers, impedes the provision of quality care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This systematic review summ...

Authors: Jaya Gupta, Mariya C. Patwa, Angel Khuu and Andreea A. Creanga

Becoming a resident in a high demanded medical specialty: an unequal race? Evidence from the Spanish resident market

Gender occupational segregation in medicine is associated with several undesired consequences such as earnings disparity, shortages of specialists or lower quality of care among others. This paper focuses on t...

Authors: Idaira Rodriguez Santana

From village health volunteers to paid care givers: the optimal mix for a multidisciplinary home health care workforce in rural Thailand

Thailand is a rapidly aging society, which places high demand on home health care services for the elderly. The shortage of health care workforce in rural areas is a crucial obstacle to the delivery of adequat...

Authors: Nonglak Pagaiya, Thinakorn Noree, Penapa Hongthong, Karnwarin Gongkulawat, Pagaluk Padungson and Dariwan Setheetham

Governance in health workforce: how do we improve on the concept? A network-based, stakeholder-driven approach

Health workforce governance has been proposed as key to improving health services delivery, yet few studies have examined the conceptualisation of health workforce governance in detail and exploration in liter...

Authors: Max Ying Hao Lim and Vivian Lin

The prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression within front-line healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-regression

Stress, anxiety, and depression are some of the most important research and practice challenges for psychologists, psychiatrists, and behavioral scientists. Due to the importance of issue and the lack of gener...

Authors: Nader Salari, Habibolah Khazaie, Amin Hosseinian-Far, Behnam Khaledi-Paveh, Mohsen Kazeminia, Masoud Mohammadi, Shamarina Shohaimi, Alireza Daneshkhah and Soudabeh Eskandari

Turnover among Australian general practitioners: a longitudinal gender analysis

Little is known about gender differences in general practitioner (GP) turnover. It is important to understand potential divergence given both the feminization of the Australian GP workforce and projected short...

Authors: E. Anne Bardoel, Grant Russell, Jenny Advocat, Susan Mayson and Margaret Kay

Challenges and policy opportunities in nursing in Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) health sector is undergoing rapid reform in line with the National Transformation Program, as part of Saudi’s vision for the future, Vision 2030. From a nursing human resour...

Authors: Mohammed Alluhidan, Nabiha Tashkandi, Fahad Alblowi, Tagwa Omer, Taghred Alghaith, Hussah Alghodaier, Nahar Alazemi, Kate Tulenko, Christopher H. Herbst, Mariam M. Hamza and Mohammed G. Alghamdi

Task-shifting directly observed treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injection administration to lay health workers: stakeholder perceptions in rural Eswatini

Eswatini is facing a critical shortage of human resources for health (HRH) and limited access to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment in rural areas. This study assessed multiple stakeholders’ p...

Authors: Ernest Peresu, J. Christo Heunis, N. Gladys Kigozi and Diana De Graeve

Workforce experience of the implementation of an advanced clinical practice framework in England: a mixed methods evaluation

This study aims to understand how the implementation of the advanced clinical practice framework in England (2017) was experienced by the workforce to check assumptions for a national workforce modelling proje...

Authors: Jessica Lawler, Katrina Maclaine and Alison Leary

More public health service providers are experiencing job burnout than clinical care providers in primary care facilities in China

Health workers are at high risk of job burnout. Primary care in China has recently expanded its scope of services to a broader range of public health services in addition to clinical care. This study aims to m...

Authors: Shan Lu, Liang Zhang, Niek Klazinga and Dionne Kringos

Attitude of nurses and midwives towards collaborative care with physicians in Jimma University medical center, Jimma, South West Ethiopia

Good attitude on collaborative care between nurses and midwives with physicians is crucial for better team working. This further enables those vital health care professionals to provide quality and improved ca...

Authors: Eneyew Melkamu and Aynalem Yetwale

Factors associated with increasing rural doctor supply in Asia-Pacific LMICs: a scoping review

More than 60% of the world’s rural population live in the Asia-Pacific region. Of these, more than 90% reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Asia-Pacific LMICs rural populations are more impoveri...

Authors: Likke Prawidya Putri, Belinda Gabrielle O’Sullivan, Deborah Jane Russell and Rebecca Kippen

Looking back to look forward: a review of human resources for health governance in South Africa from 1994 to 2018

While South Africa has had a fairly consistent record of producing national-level strategic plans for human resources for health in the past 25 years, the country continues to face major problems of affordabil...

Authors: Manya Van Ryneveld, Helen Schneider and Uta Lehmann

Occupational stress and burnout among physiotherapists: a cross-sectional survey in Cadiz (Spain)

Occupational stress is considered an ongoing epidemic. An inadequate response to a stressful situation can trigger burnout syndrome. In this way, the assistant services (health and teaching) often reach higher...

Authors: Ines Carmona-Barrientos, Francisco J. Gala-León, Mercedes Lupiani-Giménez, Alberto Cruz-Barrientos, David Lucena-Anton and Jose A. Moral-Munoz

The relevance of educational attainments of parents of medical students for health workforce planning: data from Guiné-Bissau

In this article, we analyze data collected in the context of health workforce planning (HWFP) for Guiné-Bissau as part of the development of the third National Health Strategy, to study the relationship betwee...

Authors: Paulo Ferrinho, Inês Fronteira, Tiago Correia and Clotilde Neves

The effect of breaches of the psychological contract on the job satisfaction and wellbeing of doctors in Ireland: a quantitative study

Medicine is one of the most popular college degrees at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Despite this, morale and wellbeing in doctors at all levels internationally is reportedly low. Long hours and s...

Authors: Aedin Collins and Alexandra Beauregard

Factors associated with the recruitment of foreign nurses in Japan: a nationwide study of hospitals

Nurse migration under bilateral agreements is a recent global trend, although lack of consultation with the health industries has led to challenges in the recruitment of foreign nurses by hospitals. To analyze...

Authors: Yuko O. Hirano, Kunio Tsubota and Shun Ohno

Impact of Medical Doctors Global Health and Tropical Medicine on decision-making in caesarean section: a pre- and post-implementation study in a rural hospital in Malawi

Medical doctors with postgraduate training in Global Health and Tropical Medicine (MDGHTM) from the Netherlands, a high-income country with a relatively low caesarean section rate, assist associate clinicians ...

Authors: Wouter Bakker, Emma Bakker, Christiaan Huigens, Emily Kaunda, Timothy Phiri, Jogchum Beltman, Jos van Roosmalen and Thomas van den Akker

Alignment and contribution of nursing doctoral programs to achieve the sustainable development goals

Different social segments from several regions of the world face challenges in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Nursing represents the greatest number of health workforce in the globe...

Authors: Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura, Ítalo Rodolfo Silva, Elucir Gir, Emerson Willian Santos de Almeida, Artur Acelino Francisco Luz Nunes Queiroz, Bruna Sordi Carrara, Raquel Helena Hernandez Fernandes, Tiago Privado da Silva and Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa

Projecting supply and demand for pharmacists in pharmacies based on the number of prescriptions and system dynamics modeling

Pharmacists play an important role in promoting people’s health in Japan, which has an aging population. Hence, it is necessary that the distribution of pharmacists meets the population’s needs in each region....

Authors: Yasuhiro Morii, Seiichi Furuta, Tomoki Ishikawa, Kensuke Fujiwara, Hiroko Yamashina and Katsuhiko Ogasawara

Strengthening the clinical laboratory workforce in Cambodia: a case study of a mixed-method in-service training program to improve laboratory quality management system oversight

Laboratory diagnostic testing service delivery and compliance with international standards for laboratory quality are directly influenced by laboratory workforce competency. Many hospital laboratories in const...

Authors: Siew Kim Ong, Grant T. Donovan, Nayah Ndefru, Sophanna Song, Chhayheng Leang, Sophat Sek, Michael Noble and Lucy A. Perrone

The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to develop more sustainable health workforces

This commentary addresses the critically important role of health workers in their countries’ more immediate responses to COVID-19 outbreaks and provides policy recommendations for more sustainable health work...

Authors: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Claudia B. Maier, Marjolein Dieleman, Jane Ball, Adrian MacKenzie, Susan Nancarrow, Gustavo Nigenda and Mohsin Sidat

Using data to support evidence-informed decisions about skilled birth attendants in fragile contexts: a situational analysis from Democratic Republic of the Congo

Most low- and middle-income countries are experiencing challenges in maternal health in relation to accessing skilled birth attendants (SBA). The first step in addressing this problem is understanding the curr...

Authors: Amuda Baba, Tim Martineau, Sally Theobald, Paluku Sabuni and Joanna Raven

Virtual adaptation of traditional healthcare quality improvement training in response to COVID-19: a rapid narrative review

Information and communication technology are playing a major role in ensuring continuity of healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has also disrupted healthcare quality improvement (QI)...

Authors: Zuneera Khurshid, Aoife De Brún, Gemma Moore and Eilish McAuliffe

The experiences of female surgeons around the world: a scoping review

The Lancet Commission for Global Surgery identified an adequate surgical workforce as one indicator of surgical care accessibility. Many countries where women in surgery are underrepresented struggle to meet t...

Authors: Meredith D. Xepoleas, Naikhoba C. O. Munabi, Allyn Auslander, William P. Magee and Caroline A. Yao