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Research
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
Research
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
Research
It has been over a decade since the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), genomic sequencing technologies have yet to become parts of standard of care in Canada. This study investigates medical oncolog...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:42
Published on: 27 June 2017
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Migration of health professionals has been a cause for global concern, in particular migration from African countries with a high disease burden and already fragile health systems. An estimated one fifth of Af...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:41
Published on: 26 June 2017
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In 2010 a public sector cadre of community health workers called Community Health Assistants (CHAs) was created in Zambia through the National Community Health Worker Strategy to expand access to health servic...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:40
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Community health workers (CHWs) play key roles in delivering health programmes in many countries worldwide. CHW programmes can improve coverage of maternal and child health services for the most disadvantaged ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:39
Published on: 13 June 2017
Research
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries are faced with the challenge of educating a critical mass of occupational therapists (OTs) and physiotherapists (PTs) to meet the growing demand for health and rehabilitation...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:37
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Visa trainees are international medical graduates (IMG) who come to Canada to train in a post-graduate medical education (PGME) program under a student or employment visa and are expected to return to their co...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:38
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research
Human resources are vital for delivering health services, and health systems cannot function effectively without sufficient numbers of skilled, motivated, and well-supported health workers. Job satisfaction of...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:36
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research
In many African countries, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services are predominantly delivered by nurses. Although task-shifting is not yet well established, community health workers...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:35
Published on: 26 May 2017
Research
In Canada, as in other parts of the world, there is geographic maldistribution of the nursing workforce, and insufficient attention is paid to the strengths and needs of those providing care in rural and remot...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:34
Published on: 23 May 2017
Methodology
Although motivation of health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has become a topic of increasing interest by policy makers and researchers in recent years, many aspects are not well understoo...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:33
Published on: 22 May 2017
Case study
In Nigeria, several challenges have been reported within the health sector, especially in training, funding, employment, and deployment of the health workforce. We aimed to review recent health workforce crise...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:32
Published on: 12 May 2017
Research
Nurses play a pivotal role in determining the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of health care systems. Nurses’ job satisfaction plays an important role in the delivery of quality health care. Ther...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:31
Published on: 24 April 2017
Research
Health personnel are key players in developing and improving healthcare systems, caring for individuals and their communities, and helping improve quality of life. However, these professionals are often expose...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:30
Published on: 21 April 2017
Research
Task shifting has become an increasingly popular way to increase access to health services, especially in low-resource settings. Research has demonstrated that task shifting, including the use of community hea...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:29
Published on: 13 April 2017
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This study sought to better understand the drivers of skilled health professional migration, its consequences, and the various strategies countries have employed to mitigate its negative impacts. The study was...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:28
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research
Global trends in migration accompanied with recent changes to the immigrant selection process may have influenced the demographic and human capital characteristics of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:26
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research
The shortage of a skilled health workforce is a global crisis. International efforts to combat the crisis have shown few benefits; therefore, more country-specific efforts are required. Tanzania adopted health...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:27
Published on: 4 April 2017
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Dramatic increases in the migration of human resources for health (HRH) from developing countries like the Philippines can have consequences on the sustainability of health systems. In this paper, we trace the...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:25
Published on: 31 March 2017
Research
Shortages of physicians in remote, rural and other underserved areas and lack of general practitioners limit access to health services. The aims of this article are to identify the challenges faced by policy a...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:24
Published on: 23 March 2017
