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Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:4
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How surface acting affects turnover intention among family doctors in rural China: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of occupational commitment
Family doctors in rural China are the main force for primary health care, but the workforce has not been well stabilized in recent years. Surface acting is an emotional labor strategy with a disparity between ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:3 -
Complexities of health and care worker migration pathways and corresponding international reporting requirements
The increasing complexity of the migration pathways of health and care workers is a critical consideration in the reporting requirements of international agreements designed to address their impacts. There are...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:2 -
Effect of doctor allocation policies on the equitable distribution of doctors in Thailand
Equitable geographic distribution of doctors is crucial for the provision of an accessible and efficient health service system. This study aimed to assess the effects of doctor allocation by the Thai Ministry ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:1 -
Pre-service medical education course completion and drop-out rates
The “Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030” was adopted by the 69th World Health Assembly. Among its objectives is the strengthening of data on human resources for health, to inform evi...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:88 -
Factors that influence scope of practice of the five largest health care professions in Australia: a scoping review
A well-functioning health system delivers quality services to all people when and where they need them. To help navigate the complex realm of patient care, it is essential that health care professions have a t...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:87 -
Hospitalization, death, and probable reinfection in Peruvian healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2: a national retrospective cohort study
Peru has some of the worst outcomes worldwide as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; it is presumed that this has also affected healthcare workers. This study aimed to establish whether occupation and other n...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:86 -
Physician emigration from Nigeria and the associated factors: the implications to safeguarding the Nigeria health system
Adequate Human Resources for Health is indispensable to achieving Universal Health Coverage and physicians play a leading role. Nigeria with low physician–population ratio, is experiencing massive exodus of ph...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:85 -
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study
Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers is a common occurrence worldwide, especially among young physicians and medical residents. This study aimed to explore the negative health impacts of WPV amo...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:84 -
Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff
Discrimination against hospital staff based on ascribed features is prevalent in healthcare systems worldwide. Detrimental effects on health and quality of patient care have been shown. Our study aims to descr...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:83 -
Do UK Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) have sufficient guidelines and training to provide telehealth patient consultations?
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid shift to remote consultations. United Kingdom (UK) NHS Allied Health Professional (AHP) services may have been unprepared for telehealth implementation. This study explored...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:82 -
Impact assessment of the medical practice assisting (MPA) program in general practice in the hunter New England and central coast regions of Australia
A regional Australian Primary Health Network (PHN) has been subsidising administrative staff from local general practices to undertake the Medical Practice Assisting (MPA) course as part of its MPA Program. Th...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:81 -
Analysis of factors influencing technical efficiency of public district hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
District hospitals are crucial in supporting primary health care and serve as a gateway to more specialist care through a referral system. Majority of South Africans access health care services through the pub...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:80 -
Job strain and burnout in Spanish nurses during the COVID-19: resilience as a protective factor in a cross-sectional study
Nurses are frequently exposed to chronic stress in the workplace generating harmful effects such as job strain and burnout. On the contrary, resilience has been shown to be a beneficial variable. The objective...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:79 -
Gender composition and wage gaps in the Canadian health policy research workforce in comparative perspective
Gendered challenges have been shown to persist among health practitioners in countries at all levels of development. Less is known about non-clinical professionals, that is, those who do not deliver services ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:78 -
Correction: Accreditation as a driver of interprofessional education: the Canadian experience
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:77 -
Prevalence and pattern of migration intention of doctors undergoing training programmes in public tertiary hospitals in Ekiti State, Nigeria
Emigration of Nigerian doctors, including those undergoing training, to the developed countries in Europe and Americas has reached an alarming rate.
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:76 -
Human resource needs and costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis provision in nurse-led primary care in Eswatini and opportunities for task sharing
The global expansion of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) includes health systems that face a shortage of skilled health care workers (HCWs). We estimated the human resource needs and costs for providing PrE...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:75 -
Scaling severe acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers: a geospatial coverage analysis in rural Mali
In 2015, the Ministry of Health in Mali included the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) into the package of activities of the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM). This paper aims to analyze t...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:74 -
Informing investment in health workforce in Bangladesh: a health labour market analysis
As the 2016 Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 (GSHRH) outlines, health systems can only function with health workforce (HWF). Bangladesh is committed to achieving universal health c...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:73 -
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule
The physical job demands of hospital nurses are known to be very high. Although many studies have measured the physical activities of nurses subjectively using questionnaires, it remains necessary to quantify ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:72 -
A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia
Pharmacists play a fundamental role in healthcare systems and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through quality primary healthcare service provision. While the World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:71 -
A global overview of healthcare workers’ turnover intention amid COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review with future directions
Globally, the health workforce has long suffered from labour shortages. This has been exacerbated by the workload increase caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Major collapses in healthcare systems across the worl...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:70 -
The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis
Mid-level practitioners (MLPs), including physician associates (PAs) and advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs), have emerged to address workforce shortages in the UK and perform specific roles in relation to pop...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:69 -
Correction: Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:68 -
Women’s contribution to medicine in Bahrain: leadership and workforce
Women make up a significant proportion of workforce in healthcare. However, they remain underrepresented in leadership positions relating to healthcare for a multitude of reasons: balancing personal and work d...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:67 -
Provision of injectable contraceptives by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of safety, acceptability and effectiveness
Injectable contraceptives are the most popular method of contraception in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), but their availability in clinical settings has been severely limited, despite the scarcity of health care pr...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:66 -
Accreditation as a driver of interprofessional education: the Canadian experience
The purpose of this study was to (1) explore evidence provided by Canadian health and social care (HASC) academic programs in meeting their profession-specific interprofessional education (IPE)-relevant accred...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:65 -
Assessing the mental effects of COVID-19-related work on depression among community health workers in Vietnam
Community health workers (CHWs) involved in the COVID-19 response might be at increased risk of developing depression, though evidence is scarce. We investigated effects of COVID-19-related work on changes in ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:64 -
Can machine learning models predict maternal and newborn healthcare providers’ perception of safety during the COVID-19 pandemic? A cross-sectional study of a global online survey
Maternal and newborn healthcare providers are essential professional groups vulnerable to physical and psychological risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses machine learning algorithms to ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:63 -
Health professionals’ licensing: the practice and its predictors among health professional hiring bodies in Ethiopia
Evidence suggests that not all human resource departments have hired their facility staff based on federal licensing standards, with some hiring without an active license. This is common in some, if not all, p...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:62 -
The development of task sharing policy and guidelines in Kenya
The global critical shortage of health workers prevents expansion of healthcare services and universal health coverage. Like most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya’s healthcare workforce density of 13.8 h...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:61 -
“The emotions were like a roller-coaster”: a qualitative analysis of e-diary data on healthcare worker resilience and adaptation during the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore
Uncertainties related to COVID-19 have strained the mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. Gaining the ability to adapt and thrive under pressure will be key to addressing this. We explore what ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:60 -
Improving allocative efficiency from network consolidation: a solution for the health workforce shortage
Public hospitals are facing a critical shortage of health workers. The area-based network consolidations could be the solution to increase the system capacity for human resources by improving local allocative ...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:59 -
Stock-outs of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic literature review of the extent, reasons, and consequences
This paper explores the extent of community-level stock-out of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and identifies the reasons for and consequen...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:58 -
“Raising the curtain on the equality theatre”: a study of recruitment to first healthcare job post-qualification in the UK National Health Service
UK equality law and National Health Service (NHS) policy requires racial equality in job appointments and career opportunities. However, recent national workforce race equality standard (WRES) data show that n...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:57 -
Work-related factors affecting the retention of medical officers in the preventive health sector in Sri Lanka
Retention of human resources in the healthcare system, particularly doctors at district level is a great challenge faced by the decentralized health systems in poorly resourced countries. Medical Officers of H...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:56 -
‘You say you are a TB doctor, but actually, you do not have any power’: health worker (de)motivation in the context of integrated, hospital-based tuberculosis care in eastern China
In China, tuberculosis (TB) care, traditionally provided through the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), has been integrated into ‘designated’ public hospitals at County level, with hospital staff taking on deli...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:55 -
Lessons learned from the history of postgraduate medical training in Japan: from disease-centred care to patient-centred care in an aging society
Health workers, the core of health service delivery and a key driver of progress towards universal health coverage, must be available in sufficient numbers and distributed fairly to serve the entire population...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:54 -
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis
The World Health Organization adopted the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health Workforce 2030 in May 2016. It sets specific milestones for improving health workforce planning in member countries, such...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:53 -
Teamwork quality and health workers burnout nexus: a new insight from canonical correlation analysis
Burnout is evidenced to have adverse effect on the well-being of health workers. Although several risk factors of burnout have been found, only a hand full of studies have examined the role of teamwork qualit...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:52 -
Development assistance for human resources for health, 1990–2020
Investing in the health workforce is key to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. However, achieving these Goals requires addressing a projected global shortage of 18 million health worke...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:51 -
Implementing a health labour market analysis to address health workforce gaps in a rural region of India
Human Resources for Health (HRH) are essential for making meaningful progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), but health systems in most of the developing countries continue to suffer from serious gap...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:50 -
Correction to: WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:49 -
Implications for health system reform, workforce recovery and rebuilding in the context of the Great Recession and COVID-19: a case study of workforce trends in Ireland 2008–2021
Workforce is a fundamental health systems building block, with unprecedented measures taken to meet extra demand and facilitate surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic, following a prolonged period of aust...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:48 -
Improving health workforce governance: the role of multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms and human resources for health units in ministries of health
A cohesive and strategic governance approach is needed to improve the health workforce (HW). To achieve this, the WHO Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health (HRH) promotes mechanisms to coordinate HRH s...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:47 -
Tackling brain drain at Chinese CDCs: understanding job preferences of public health doctoral students using a discrete choice experiment survey
Given the demands for public health and infectious disease management skills during COVID-19, a shortage of the public health workforce, particularly with skills and competencies in epidemiology and biostatist...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:46 -
Nursing engagement in research priorities focused on health systems and services in Latin America countries
A strong nursing research agenda in Latin America is fundamental to universal health coverage. Nursing science can make important contributions to the health of Latin American people through knowledge generati...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:45 -
Perceptions of Community Health Workers (CHW) on barriers and enablers to care for people with psychosis in rural Mozambique: findings of a focus group discussion study using the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behaviour framework (COM-B framework)
Psychotic disorders contribute significantly to the global disease burden by causing disability, impaired quality of life, and higher mortality in affected people compared with the general population. In rural...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:44 -
Prevalence and associated factors for workplace violence among general practitioners in China: a national cross-sectional study
General practitioners (GPs) were at risk of violence in their everyday working lives. Workplace violence (WPV) among GPs is a global public health concern. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and fa...
Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:42
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