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  1. Most countries are off-track to achieve global maternal and newborn health goals. Global stakeholders agree that investment in midwifery is an important element of the solution. During a global shortage of hea...

    Authors: Andrea Nove, Martin Boyce, Sarah Neal, Caroline S. E. Homer, Tina Lavender, Zoë Matthews and Soo Downe
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:54
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  2. Medical assistants (MAs) are crucial for affordable, high-quality primary care, but what motivates this low-wage occupational group to stay in their job remains underexplored. This paper identifies the work as...

    Authors: Bram P. I. Fleuren, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Lynda Gruenewald-Schmitz, Jennifer Larkin and Christina T. Yuan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:53
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  3. Though we have made ample advances in the field of medicine in recent years, our idea of professionalism continues to be based on the standard of how white men dressed in the nineteenth century. Such a standar...

    Authors: Maria Borrero, Lauren Kiel, Inas Abuali, Zalaya K. Ivy and Narjust Florez
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:52
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  4. Mental, neurological, and substance abuse (MNS) disorders describe a range of conditions that affect the brain and cause distress or functional impairment. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), MNS disor...

    Authors: Eileen Lee, Tim A. Bruckner, Mohammad Alluhidan, Adwa Alamri, Abdulhameed Alhabeeb, Ziad Nakshabandi, Mohammed M. J. Alqahtani, Christopher H. Herbst, Mariam M. Hamza and Nahar Alazemi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:51
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  5. In the high disease burden and resource-constrained contexts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), health workers experience a range of psychosocial stressors that leave them vulnerable to developing burnout, which can...

    Authors: Mara C. Steinhaus, Tamaryn J. Nicholson, Triantafyllos Pliakas, Abigail Harper, Pamela Lilleston, Tila Mainga, Deborah Milimo, Karen Jennings, Nelis Grobbelaar, Francoise Louis, Handri Liebenberg, Richard J. Hayes, Sarah Fidler, Helen Ayles, Peter Bock, Graeme Hoddinott…
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:50
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  7. Many high-income countries are grappling with severe labour shortages in the healthcare sector. Refugees and recent migrants present a potential pool for staff recruitment due to their higher unemployment rate...

    Authors: Jasper Tjaden, Miriam Seuthe and Sebastian Weinert
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:48
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  8. Public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs) as the COVID-19 pandemic and others that have occurred since the early 2000s put enormous pressure on health and care systems. This is being a contex...

    Authors: Isabel Craveiro, Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, Ana Paula Cavalcante de OLiveira, Alessandra Pereira, Inês Fronteira, Raphael Chança, Giorgio Cometto, Mario Roberto Dal Poz and Paulo Ferrinho
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:47
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Peer mentorship can be a potential tool to reduce the disparities in health research capacity between high- and low- and middle-income countries. This case study describes the potential of peer mentorship to t...

    Authors: Patience Toyin-Thomas, Oghenebrume Wariri and Paul Ikhurionan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:46
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  10. Gender equality and the gender income gap in medicine are long-standing global problems. Although gender-related differences have been widely studied in developed countries, they remain unclear in underdevelop...

    Authors: Haoqing Tang, Mingyue Li, Huixian Zheng, Xiaotian Zhang and Xiaoyun Liu
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:45
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  12. Physicians and associate (non-physician) clinicians conduct cesarean sections in Tanzania and Malawi. Urogenital fistulas may occur as complications of cesarean section. Location and circumstances can indicate...

    Authors: Carrie J. Ngongo, Thomas J. I. P. Raassen, Jos van Roosmalen, Marietta Mahendeka, Ladeisha Lombard and Elizabeth Bukusi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:43
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  13. Job burnout is a prevalent and emerging challenge in the primary medical system, causing mass turnover, especially of primary medical staff. Little attention has been paid to the different dimensions of job bu...

    Authors: Guimei Chen, Jing Wang, Qian Huang, Lingzhi Sang, Jing Yan, Ren Chen, Jing Cheng, Li Wang, Dongmei Zhang and Hong Ding
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:42
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  15. Physician assistants/associates (PAs) provide services in diverse medical specialties globally, including psychiatry. While health professionals in psychiatry have been described for many years, little is know...

    Authors: Mirela Bruza-Augatis, Andrzej Kozikowski, Roderick S. Hooker and Kasey Puckett
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:40
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  16. According to previous studies, stress and job burnout among medical personnel increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study analyzed the effect of the experience of COVID-19 response work on the intention...

    Authors: Eunyoung Park, Chang Hoon You, Hyojee Joung and Young Dae Kwon
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:39
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  17. Designing competency-based education (CBE) programmes is a priority in global nursing education for better nursing care for the population. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), object-based education...

    Authors: Mari Nagai, Miyuki Oikawa, Tomoko Komagata, Josué Désiré Bapitani Basuana, Gérard Kahombo Ulyabo, Yui Minagawa, Sadatoshi Matsuoka, Yuriko Egami, Mari Honda and Toyomitsu Tamura
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:38
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  18. The resource needs of health services are served by the recognition of qualifications across borders which allows professionals to migrate between countries. The movement of dentists across the European Union ...

    Authors: Marie Bryce, Sally Hanks, Lorna Burns, Daniel Zahra and Thomas Gale
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:37
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  19. Hospitals’ accreditation process is carried out to enhance the quality of hospitals’ care and patient safety practices as well. The current study aimed to investigate the influence of hospitals’ accreditation ...

    Authors: Islam Ali Oweidat, Huda Atiyeh, Mohammed Alosta, Khalid Al-Mugheed, Amany Anwar Saeed Alabdullah, Majdi M. Alzoubi and Sally Mohammed Farghaly Abdelaliem
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:36
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  20. In healthcare, “speaking up” refers to when healthcare workers raise concerns regarding patient safety through questions, sharing information, or expressing their opinion to prevent harmful incidents and ensur...

    Authors: Alex Ren Jye Kim, Kimihiro Nishino, Mohamad Adam Bujang, Zubalqiah Zulkifli, Souphalak Inthaphatha and Eiko Yamamoto
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:35
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  21. Aggression and violence by patient (and their relatives/friends) is widely acknowledged as a serious occupational hazard, with physicians being particularly susceptible to witnessing and experiencing such inci...

    Authors: Yuhan Wu, Martina Buljac-Samardzic, Dahai Zhao and C. T. B. Ahaus
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:34
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  22. Cancer was ranked as the second leading cause of global mortality in 2019, with an increasing incidence. An adequate workforce of healthcare professionals with special skills and knowledge in cancer care is vi...

    Authors: Tomoko Tamaki, Noriko Morioka, Ako Machida and Masayo Kashiwagi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:33
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  23. Eswatini faces persistent challenges in providing care for diabetes and hypertension, exacerbated by a shortage of healthcare workers. The implementation of WHO-PEN interventions aimed to address these issues,...

    Authors: Harsh Vivek Harkare, Brianna Osetinsky, Ntombifuthi Ginindza, Bongekile Thobekile Cindzi, Nomfundo Mncina, Babatunde Akomolafe, Lisa-Rufaro Marowa, Nyasatu Ntshalintshali and Fabrizio Tediosi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:32
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  24. The Chinese government has formulated a series of policies and strengthened training of general practitioners (GPs) to support their role as “gatekeepers” of residents’ health. This study aimed to explore the ...

    Authors: Xue Gong, Xu Zhang, Xinyan Zhang, Yixuan Li, Yang Zhang and Xiaosong Yu
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:31
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  25. Burnout is an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress. We conducted this review to estimate the pooled global prevalence of burnout among the public health workforce.

    Authors: Ramya Nagarajan, Padmavathi Ramachandran, Rajendran Dilipkumar and Prabhdeep Kaur
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:30
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Undoubtedly, the mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) was negatively affected because of caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, literature is limited on mapping the challenges and nee...

    Authors: Pinelopi Konstantinou, Vaso Theofanous, Maria Karekla and Angelos P. Kassianos
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:29
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  27. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented multiple psychological challenges for healthcare workers, such as anxiety, depression, burnout, and substance use disorders. In this research, we investigate the different w...

    Authors: Cătălina Angela Crișan, Răzvan Pop, Roland Stretea, Zaki Milhem and Alina-Ioana Forray
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:28
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  29. India has the largest cohort of community health workers with one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). ASHAs play vital role in providing health education and promoting accessible health care se...

    Authors: Rajmohan Panda, Supriya Lahoti, Nivedita Mishra, Rajath R. Prabhu, Kalpana Singh, Apoorva Karan Rai and Kumud Rai
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:26
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  30. Health workforce projection models are integral components of a robust healthcare system. This research aims to review recent advancements in methodology and approaches for health workforce projection models a...

    Authors: John Tayu Lee, Ian Crettenden, My Tran, Daniel Miller, Mark Cormack, Megan Cahill, Jinhu Li, Tomoko Sugiura and Fan Xiang
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:25
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  31. A robust workforce of locum tenens (LT) physicians is imperative for health service stability. A systematic review was conducted to synthesize current evidence on the strategies used to facilitate the recruitm...

    Authors: Nathan Ferreira, Odessa McKenna, Iain R. Lamb, Alanna Campbell, Lily DeMiglio and Eliseo Orrantia
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:24
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  32. During the 1990–2000, Kazakhstan experienced a decline in the number of healthcare professionals working in rural areas. Since 2009, the national government has been implementing financial incentives to encour...

    Authors: Bagym Jobalayeva, Zaituna Khismetova, Natalya Glushkova, Zhanat Kozhekenova, Akerke Abzaliyeva, Duman Berikuly and Yuliya Semenova
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:23
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  33. A non-randomized controlled trial, conducted from June 2018 to March 2019 in two rural communes in the health district of Mayahi in Niger, showed that including community health workers (CHWs) in the treatment...

    Authors: Elisa M. Molanes-López, José M. Ferrer, Abdias Ogobara Dougnon, Abdoul Aziz Gado, Atté Sanoussi, Nassirou Ousmane, Ramatoulaye Hamidou Lazoumar and Pilar Charle-Cuéllar
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:22
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  34. The COVID-19 pandemic further propelled the recent growth of telemedicine in low-resource countries, with new models of telemedicine emerging, including volunteer-based telemedicine networks. By leveraging exi...

    Authors: Karishma D’Souza, Saksham Singh, Christopher M. Westgard and Sharon Barnhardt
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:21
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  35. Pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes are commonly used to incentivize primary healthcare (PHC) providers to improve the quality of care they deliver. However, the effectiveness of P4P schemes can vary depending o...

    Authors: Wencai Zhang, Yanping Li, BeiBei Yuan and Dawei Zhu
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:20
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  36. The ophthalmology workforce is an integral component of any health care system. However, the demand for eye care has imposed a heavy burden on this system. Hence, this study aimed to estimate the trends, demog...

    Authors: Tariq Aldebasi, Abdullah M. Alhejji, Bushra H. Bukhari, Nawaf K. Alawad, Sarah M. Alghaihab, Raghad M. Alakel, Albanderi Alhamzah, Tariq Almudhaiyan, Shatha Alfreihi, Malek Alrobaian and Shiji Gangadharan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:19
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  37. Family physicians (FPs) fill an essential role in public health emergencies yet have frequently been neglected in pandemic response plans. This exclusion harms FPs in their clinical roles and has unintended co...

    Authors: Sarah Spencer, Julia Lukewich, Emily Gard Marshall, Maria Mathews, Shabnam Asghari, Judith B. Brown, Thomas R. Freeman, Paul Gill, Samina Idrees, Rita K. McCracken, Sudit Ranade, Steve Slade, Amanda L. Terry, Jamie Wickett, Eric Wong, Richard Buote…
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:18
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  38. Given nurses’ increasing international mobility, Asian internationally educated nurses (IENs) represent a critical human resource highly sought after within the global healthcare workforce. Developed countries...

    Authors: Danny Shin Kai Ung, Yong Shian Goh, Ryan Yuan Sheng Poon, Yongxing Patrick Lin, Betsy Seah, Violeta Lopez, Kristina Mikkonen, Keng Kwang Yong and Sok Ying Liaw
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:17
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. In this commentary, we develop a conceptual proposal aimed to explain why a discourse of praise and admiration for healthcare professionals´ limitless dedication can trigger a general indifference to the burno...

    Authors: Dolores Morera, Janet Delgado, Elena Lorenzo, María Elisa de Castro-Peraza and Naira Delgado
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:16
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  42. Regulation can improve professional practice and patient care, but is often weakly implemented and enforced in health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Taking a de-centred and frontline pers...

    Authors: Gerry McGivern, Francis Wafula, Gloria Seruwagi, Tina Kiefer, Anita Musiega, Catherine Nakidde, Dosila Ogira, Mike Gill and Mike English
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:13
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  43. Quality assessments are being introduced in many countries to improve the quality of care and maintain acceptable quality levels. In South Korea, various quality assessments are being conducted to improve the ...

    Authors: Seungju Kim, Gui Ok Kim, Syalrom Lee and Yong Uk Kwon
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:12
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  45. Health and care workers (HCW) faced the double burden of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: as members of a society affected by a public health emergency and as HWC who experienced fear of becoming infected and of infec...

    Authors: Inês Fronteira, Verona Mathews, Ranailla Lima Bandeira dos Santos, Karen Matsumoto, Woldekidan Amde, Alessandra Pereira, Ana Paula Cavalcante de Oliveira, Isabel Craveiro, Raphael Chança, Mathieu Boniol, Paulo Ferrinho and Mario Roberto Dal Poz
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:10
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  46. International mobility of health workforce affects the performance of health systems and has major relevance in human resources for health policy and planning. To date, there has been little research exploring...

    Authors: Sara Calderón-Larrañaga, Ángel González-De-La-Fuente, Ana Belén Espinosa-González, Verónica Casado-Vicente, Óscar Brito-Fernandes, Niek Klazinga and Dionne Kringos
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:9
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  47. Healthcare literature suggests that leadership behavior has a profound impact on nurse work-related well-being. Yet, more research is needed to better conceptualize, measure, and analyse the concepts of leader...

    Authors: Dorothea Kohnen, Hans De Witte, Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Simon Dello, Luk Bruyneel and Walter Sermeus
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:8
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  49. High morbidity and mortality related to the use of drugs resulted in demand for clinical pharmacy services (CPS) globally. In developed countries, the evolution of pharmacists’ role in direct patient care star...

    Authors: Manase Kilonzi, Ritah F. Mutagonda, Dorkasi L. Mwakawanga, Hamu J. Mlyuka, Wigilya P. Mikomangwa, Wema A. Kibanga, Alphonce Ignace Marealle, Bertha Mallya, Deogratias Katabalo, Sofia Sanga, Fredrick Kalokola, John Rwegasha, Rose Magambo, John Mmassy, Sungwa Kabissi, Josephine A. Balati…
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:6
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  50. Prosthetists and orthotists (POs) are the smallest of the 14 allied health profession (AHP) workforces within NHS England. Obtaining data on the workforce has always been challenging due to this information be...

    Authors: Nicola Eddison, Aoife Healy, Enza Leone, Caroline Jackson, Bracken Pluckrose and Nachiappan Chockalingam
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2024 22:3
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