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  1. Successfully motivating and retaining health workers is critical for the effective performance of health systems. In Mozambique, a shortage of health care professionals and low levels of staff motivation in ru...

    Authors: Ayako Honda and Ferruccio Vio
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:23
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  2. This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identif...

    Authors: Gisselle Gallego, Angela Dew, Kim Bulkeley, Craig Veitch, Michelle Lincoln, Anita Bundy and Jennie Brentnall
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:22
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  3. During the last two decades, the Iraqi human resources for health was exposed to an unprecedented turnover of trained and experienced medical professionals. This study aimed to explore prominent factors affect...

    Authors: Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Ilker Dastan, Ruqiya Subhi Tawfeeq, Mustafa Ali Mustafa, Kurubaran Ganasegeran and Sami Abdo Radman AlDubai
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:21
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  4. Mozambique suffers from critical shortages of healthcare workers including non-physician clinicians, Tecnicos de Medicina Geral (TMGs), who are often senior clinicians in rural health centres. The Mozambique Mini...

    Authors: Caryl Feldacker, Sergio Chicumbe, Martinho Dgedge, Freide Cesar, Gerito Augusto, Molly Robertson, Francisco Mbofana and Gabrielle O’Malley
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:20
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  5. Supervision is meant to improve the performance and motivation of community health workers (CHWs). However, most evidence on supervision relates to facility health workers. The Integrated Maternal, Newborn, an...

    Authors: Timothy Roberton, Jennifer Applegate, Amnesty E Lefevre, Idda Mosha, Chelsea M Cooper, Marissa Silverman, Isabelle Feldhaus, Joy J Chebet, Rose Mpembeni, Helen Semu, Japhet Killewo, Peter Winch, Abdullah H Baqui and Asha S George
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:19
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  7. Task shifting is a common strategy to deliver antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited settings and is safe and effective if implemented appropriately. Consensus among stakeholders is necessary to form...

    Authors: Alison S Rustagi, Rosa Marlene Manjate, Stephen Gloyd, Grace John-Stewart, Mark Micek, Sarah Gimbel and Kenneth Sherr
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:18
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  8. Health information is required for a variety of purposes at all levels of a health system, and a workforce skilled in collecting, analysing, presenting, and disseminating such information is essential to fulfi...

    Authors: Maxine Whittaker, Nicola Hodge, Renata E Mares and Anna Rodney
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:17
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  10. The feminization of medicine has risen dramatically over the past decades. The aim of this article was to compare the advance of women with that of men and determine the differences between hierarchical status...

    Authors: Pilar Arrizabalaga, Rosa Abellana, Odette Viñas, Anna Merino and Carlos Ascaso
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:15
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  12. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the professional expectations and profile of medical students at the Cuban-supported School of General Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Scien...

    Authors: Paulo Ferrinho, Ana C Valdes and Jorge Cabral
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:13
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  13. Close-to-community (CTC) providers, including community health workers or volunteers or health extension workers, can be effective in promoting access to and utilization of health services. Tasks are often shi...

    Authors: Sarah Smith Lunsford, Kate Fatta, Kim Ethier Stover and Ram Shrestha
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:12
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  14. To provide the optimum level of healthcare, it is important that the supply of well-trained doctors meets the demand. However, despite many initiatives, Ireland continues to have a shortfall of physicians, whi...

    Authors: Pishoy Gouda, Kevin Kitt, David S Evans, Deirdre Goggin, Deirdre McGrath, Jason Last, Martina Hennessy, Richard Arnett, Siun O’Flynn, Fidelma Dunne and Diarmuid O’Donovan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:11
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  15. In Thailand, the inequitable distribution of doctors between rural and urban areas has a major impact on access to care for those living in rural communities. The rural medical education programme ‘Collaborati...

    Authors: Nonglak Pagaiya, Lalitaya Kongkam and Sanya Sriratana
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:10
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  16. Hospitals face increasingly competitive market conditions. In this challenging environment, hospitals have been struggling to build high-quality hospital–physician relationships. In the literature, two types o...

    Authors: Jeroen Trybou, Gaelle De Caluwé, Katrien Verleye, Paul Gemmel and Lieven Annemans
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:8
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  17. Italian regional health authorities annually negotiate the number of residency grants to be financed by the National government and the number and mix of supplementary grants to be funded by the regional budge...

    Authors: Francesca Senese, Paolo Tubertini, Angelina Mazzocchetti, Andrea Lodi, Corrado Ruozi and Roberto Grilli
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:7
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  18. Sub-Saharan Africa faces a severe health worker shortage, which community health workers (CHWs) may fill. This study describes tasks shifted from clinicians to CHWs in Kenya, places monetary valuations on CHWs...

    Authors: Laura D Sander, David Holtzman, Mark Pauly and Jennifer Cohn
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:6
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  19. In 2004, the Japanese government permitted medical graduates for the first time to choose their training location directly through a national matching system. While the reform has had a major impact on physici...

    Authors: Rie Sakai, Hiroshi Tamura, Rei Goto and Ichiro Kawachi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:5
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  20. Recent economic growth in Kazakhstan has been accompanied by slower improvements in population health and this has renewed impetus for health system reform. Strengthening strategic planning and policy-making c...

    Authors: Tata Chanturidze, Orvill Adams, Bolat Tokezhanov, Mike Naylor and Erica Richardson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:4
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  22. Mobile health (mHealth) applications, such as innovative electronic forms on smartphones, could potentially improve the performance of health care workers and health systems in developing countries. However, c...

    Authors: Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Alex Little, Henock Yebyo, Mark Spigt, Kidane Tadesse, Roman Blanco and Geert-Jan Dinant
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:2
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  23. African medical schools have historically turned to northern partners for technical assistance and resources to strengthen their education and research programmes. In 2010, this paradigm shifted when the Unite...

    Authors: Zohray M Talib, Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Hannah Wohltjen, Miliard Derbew, Yakub Mulla, David Olaleye and Nelson Sewankambo
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:1
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  24. Neurological disorders are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan African, but resources for their management are scarce. Collaborations between training institutions in developed and resourc...

    Authors: Mark Kaddumukasa, Elly Katabira, Robert A Salata, Marco A Costa, Edward Ddumba, Anthony Furlan, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige, Moses R Kamya, James Kayima, Chris T Longenecker, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Charles Mondo, Shirley Moore, Svetlana Pundik, Nelson Sewankambo, Daniel I Simon…
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:75
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  26. Human resource shortages and reforms in HIV-related care make it challenging for frontline health care providers in southern Africa to deliver high-quality services. At health facilities of the Zambian Defence...

    Authors: Eva Bazant, Supriya Sarkar, Joseph Banda, Webby Kanjipite, Stephanie Reinhardt, Hildah Shasulwe, Joyce Monica Chongo Mulilo and Young Mi Kim
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:73
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  27. Most African countries are facing a human resources for health (HRH) crisis, lacking the required workforce to deliver basic health care, including care for mothers and children. This is especially acute in ru...

    Authors: Gail Tomblin Murphy, Fastone Goma, Adrian MacKenzie, Stephanie Bradish, Sheri Price, Selestine Nzala, Annette Elliott Rose, Janet Rigby, Chilweza Muzongwe, Nellisiwe Chizuni, Amanda Carey and Derrick Hamavhwa
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:72
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  28. Community health workers (CHWs) can play important roles in primary health care delivery, particularly in settings of health workforce shortages. However, little is known about CHWs’ perceptions of barriers an...

    Authors: Jeanine Condo, Catherine Mugeni, Brienna Naughton, Kathleen Hall, Maria Antonia Tuazon, Abiud Omwega, Friday Nwaigwe, Peter Drobac, Ziauddin Hyder, Fidele Ngabo and Agnes Binagwaho
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:71
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  30. The formalized nurse practitioner (NP) role in British Columbia is relatively new with most roles implemented in primary care. The majority of primary care is delivered by physicians using the fee-for-service ...

    Authors: Alison Roots and Marjorie MacDonald
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:69
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  31. The Community Health Workers (CHWs) Programme was launched in Luanda, Angola, in 2007 as an initiative of the provincial government. The aim of this study was to assess its implementation process.

    Authors: Camila Giugliani, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Erno Harzheim, Antônio Carlile Holanda Lavor, Míria Campos Lavor, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Maria Idalice Barbosa, Vera Joana Bornstein, Ana Lúcia Pontes and Daniela Riva Knauth
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:68
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  32. Planning for human resources for health (HRH) is central to health systems strengthening around the world, including in the Caribbean and Jamaica. In an effort to align Jamaica’s health workforce with the chan...

    Authors: Gail Tomblin Murphy, Adrian MacKenzie, Joan Guy-Walker and Claudette Walker
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:67
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  33. Community health workers (CHWs) have been central to broadening the access and coverage of preventative and curative health services worldwide. Much has been debated about how to best remunerate and incentiviz...

    Authors: Marie-Renée B-Lajoie, Jennifer Hulme and Kirsten Johnson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:66
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  34. Research suggests that health professionals who have trained together have a better understanding of one another’s scope of practice and are thus equipped for teamwork during their professional careers. Dental...

    Authors: Kristina L Wanyonyi, David R Radford and Jennifer E Gallagher
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:65
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. The varied performance of Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes in different contexts has highlighted the need for implementation of research that focuses on programme delivery issues. This paper presents t...

    Authors: Jackline O Aridi, Sarah A Chapman, Margaret A Wagah and Joel Negin
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:64
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  36. Medical training has shown to be strategic for strengthening health systems, especially in those countries identified to have critical shortage of human resources for health. In the past few years, several stu...

    Authors: Inês Fronteira, Mohsin Sidat, Mário Fresta, Maria do Rosário Sambo, Celso Belo, Cezaltina Kahuli, Maria Alexandra Rodrigues and Paulo Ferrinho
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:63
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  37. The Philippines continues to overproduce nurses for export. Little first-hand evidence exists from leading organisations in the Philippines concerning their experiences and perceptions in relation to Filipino ...

    Authors: Kanchan Marcus, Gabriella Quimson and Stephanie D Short
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:62
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  38. Governments are increasingly reliant on community health workers to undertake health promotion and provide essential curative care. In 2003, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Programme a...

    Authors: Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Bereket Mathewos, Jeanne Russell and Abeba Bekele
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:61
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  39. As a response to an Australian shortage of clinical health, nursing, and medical placements, Commonwealth Government funding has been directed to expand student training opportunities and increase the competen...

    Authors: Sue Gillieatt, Robyn Martin, Trudi Marchant, Angela Fielding and Kate Duncanson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:60
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  41. Health workforce planning is especially important in a setting of political, social, and economic uncertainty. Portuguese community pharmacists are experiencing such conditions as well as increasing patient em...

    Authors: João Gregório, Afonso Cavaco and Luís Velez Lapão
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:58
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. There has been a resurgence of interest in national Community Health Worker (CHW) programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). A lack of strong research evidence persists, however, about the most effi...

    Authors: Joseph F Naimoli, Diana E Frymus, Tana Wuliji, Lynne M Franco and Martha H Newsome
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:56
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  44. Progress toward universal health coverage in many low- and middle-income countries is hindered by the lack of an adequate health workforce that can deliver quality services accessible to the entire population.

    Authors: Angelica Sousa, Richard M Scheffler, Grayson Koyi, Symplice Ngah Ngah, Ayat Abu-Agla, Harrison M M’kiambati and Jennifer Nyoni
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:55
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  45. Volunteer community health workers (VCHW) are health care providers who are trained but do not have any professional certification. They are intended to fill the gap for unmet curative, preventative, and healt...

    Authors: Fisaha Haile, Dejen Yemane and Azeb Gebreslassie
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:54
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  46. General practitioners (GPs) have to match patients’ demands with the mix of their practice staff’s competencies. However, apart from some general principles, there is little guidance on recruiting new staff. T...

    Authors: Juliane von Eitzen-Strassel, Hubertus J M Vrijhoef, Emmy W C C Derckx and Dinny H de Bakker
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:53
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  48. Despite the growing interest in the private health sector in low- and middle-income countries, little is known about physicians working outside the public sector. The present work adopts a mixed-methods approa...

    Authors: Giuliano Russo, Bruno de Sousa, Mohsin Sidat, Paulo Ferrinho and Gilles Dussault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:51
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  49. Outreach has been endorsed as an important global strategy to promote universal access to health care but it depends on health workers who are willing to travel. In Australia, rural outreach is commonly provid...

    Authors: Belinda G O’Sullivan, Catherine M Joyce and Matthew R McGrail
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:50
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  50. Irish medical students have a long and proud history of embarking on international health electives (IHEs) to broaden their experience in the developing world. Although there are many opinions in the literatur...

    Authors: Patrick O’Donnell, Eilish McAuliffe and Diarmuid O‘Donovan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2014 12:49
    Content type: Research Published on:
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