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  1. Effective implementation and sustainability of quality laboratory programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa relies on the development of appropriate staff retention strategies. Assessing the factors responsible for job...

    Authors: Francesco Marinucci, Mtebe Majigo, Matthew Wattleworth, Antonio Damiano Paterniti, Mian Bazle Hossain and Robert Redfield

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:38

    Content type: Research

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  2. Ghana is one of the sub-Saharan African countries making significant progress towards universal access to quality healthcare. However, it remains a challenge to attain the 2015 targets for the health related M...

    Authors: Robert Kaba Alhassan, Nicole Spieker, Paul van Ostenberg, Alice Ogink, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Tobias F Rinke de Wit

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:37

    Content type: Research

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  4. To address the shortage of health information personnel within Botswana, an innovative human resources approach was taken. University graduates without training or experience in health information or health sc...

    Authors: Jenny H Ledikwe, Letitia L Reason, Sarah M Burnett, Lesego Busang, Stephane Bodika, Refeletswe Lebelonyane, Steven Ludick, Ellah Matshediso, Shreshth Mawandia, Mpho Mmelesi, Baraedi Sento and Bazghina-werq Semo

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:35

    Content type: Research

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  5. The contribution of inadequate health worker numbers and emigration have been highlighted in the international literature, but relatively little attention has been paid to absenteeism as a factor that undermin...

    Authors: Alice Belita, Patrick Mbindyo and Mike English

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:34

    Content type: Review

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  6. Angola is one of the African countries with the highest morbidity and mortality rates and a devastating lack of human resources for health, including nursing. The World Health Organization stimulates and takes...

    Authors: Leila Maria Marchi-Alves, Carla A Arena Ventura, Maria Auxiliadora Trevizan, Alessandra Mazzo, Simone de Godoy and Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:33

    Content type: Research

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  8. Health workforce projections are important instruments to prevent imbalances in the health workforce. For both the tenability and further development of these projections, it is important to evaluate the accur...

    Authors: Malou Van Greuningen, Ronald S Batenburg and Lud FJ Van der Velden

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:31

    Content type: Research

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  9. In sub-Saharan Africa, lack of motivation and job dissatisfaction have been cited as causes of poor healthcare quality and outcomes. Measurement of health workers’ satisfaction adapted to sub-Saharan African w...

    Authors: Adama Faye, Pierre Fournier, Idrissa Diop, Aline Philibert, Florence Morestin and Alexandre Dumont

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:30

    Content type: Research

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  10. In sub-Saharan Africa, nurses and midwives provide expanded HIV services previously seen as the sole purview of physicians. Delegation of these functions often occurs informally by shifting or sharing of tasks...

    Authors: Carey F McCarthy, Joachim Voss, Marla E Salmon, Jessica M Gross, Maureen A Kelley and Patricia L Riley

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:29

    Content type: Research

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  11. While severe shortages, inadequate skills and a geographical imbalance of health personnel have been consistently documented over the years as long term critical challenges in the health sector of the United R...

    Authors: Amon Exavery, Angelina M Lutambi, Neema Wilson, Godfrey M Mubyazi, Senga Pemba and Godfrey Mbaruku

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:28

    Content type: Research

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  12. Unemployment among health professionals in Serbia has risen in the recent past and continues to increase. This highlights the need to understand how to change policies to meet real and projected needs. This st...

    Authors: Milena Santric-Milicevic, Vladimir Vasic and Jelena Marinkovic

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:27

    Content type: Case study

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  13. In the rapid scale-up of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) treatment, many donors have chosen to channel their funds to non-governmental organizations and ot...

    Authors: Abdul H Mussa, James Pfeiffer, Stephen S Gloyd and Kenneth Sherr

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:26

    Content type: Research

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  14. Health Care Aides (HCAs) provide up to 80% of the direct care to older Canadians living in long term care facilities, or in their homes. They are an understudied workforce, and calls for health human resources...

    Authors: Whitney Berta, Audrey Laporte, Raisa Deber, Andrea Baumann and Brenda Gamble

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:25

    Content type: Commentary

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  17. A discrete choice experiment was conducted to investigate preferences for job characteristics among nursing students and practicing nurses to determine how these groups vary in their respective preferences and...

    Authors: Peter C Rockers, Wanda Jaskiewicz, Margaret E Kruk, Outavong Phathammavong, Phouthone Vangkonevilay, Chanthakhath Paphassarang, Inpong Thong Phachanh, Laura Wurts and Kate Tulenko

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:22

    Content type: Research

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  18. The migration of health-care workers contributes to the shortage of health-care workers in many developing countries. This paper aims to describe the migration of medical specialists from Sri Lanka and to disc...

    Authors: A Pubudu De Silva, Isurujith Kongala Liyanage, S Terrance GR De Silva, Mahesha B Jayawardana, Chiranthi K Liyanage and Indika M Karunathilake

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:21

    Content type: Research

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  19. The evidence on the cost and cost-effectiveness of global training programs is sparse. This manager’s guide to cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is for professionals who want to recognize and support high qual...

    Authors: Gabrielle O’Malley, Elliot Marseille and Marcia R Weaver

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:20

    Content type: Commentary

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  20. Interdisciplinary team work is increasingly prevalent, supported by policies and practices that bring care closer to the patient and challenge traditional professional boundaries. To date, there has been a gre...

    Authors: Susan A Nancarrow, Andrew Booth, Steven Ariss, Tony Smith, Pam Enderby and Alison Roots

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:19

    Content type: Research

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  22. The village doctors have served rural residents for many decades in China, and their role in rural health system has been highly praised in the world; unfortunately, less attention has been paid to the health ...

    Authors: Huiwen Xu, Weijun Zhang, Xiulan Zhang, Zhiyong Qu, Xiaohua Wang, Zhihong Sa, Yafang Li, Shuliang Zhao, Xuan Qi and Donghua Tian

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:17

    Content type: Research

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  23. Despite the large body of evidence suggesting that effective public health infrastructure is vital to improving the health status of populations, many universities in developing countries offer minimal opportu...

    Authors: Agya Mahat, Stephen A Bezruchka, Virginia Gonzales and Frederick A Connell

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:16

    Content type: Research

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  25. The demand for nurses is growing and has not yet been met in most developing countries, including India, Kenya, South Africa, and Thailand. Efforts to increase the capacity for production of professional nurse...

    Authors: Jaratdao Reynolds, Thunthita Wisaijohn, Nareerut Pudpong, Nantiya Watthayu, Alex Dalliston, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Weerasak Putthasri and Krisada Sawaengdee

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:14

    Content type: Review

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  26. Despite significant investments and reforms, health care remains poor for many in Africa. To design an intervention to improve access and quality of health care at health facilities in eastern Uganda, we aimed...

    Authors: Clare I R Chandler, James Kizito, Lilian Taaka, Christine Nabirye, Miriam Kayendeke, Deborah DiLiberto and Sarah G Staedke

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:13

    Content type: Research

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  27. Previous studies have investigated factors that are influential on the choice of training hospitals among residency physicians, but the effect of salary was not conclusive. In this study, we aimed to examine w...

    Authors: Taiji Enari and Hideki Hashimoto

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:12

    Content type: Research

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  28. This article represents the first attempt to explore remuneration in Human Resources for Health (HRH), comparing wage levels, ranking and dispersion of 16 HRH occupational groups in 20 countries (Argentina, Be...

    Authors: Kea Tijdens, Daniel H de Vries and Stephanie Steinmetz

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:11

    Content type: Research

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  29. There is a growing emphasis on the need to tackle inadequate human resources for health (HRH) as an essential part of strengthening health systems; but the focus is mostly on macro-level issues, such as traini...

    Authors: Jacinta Nzinga, Lairumbi Mbaabu and Mike English

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:10

    Content type: Review

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  30. In Australia a persistent and sizable gender wage gap exists. In recent years this gap has been steadily widening. The negative impact of gender wage differentials is the disincentive to work more hours. This ...

    Authors: Nerina Vecchio, Paul A Scuffham, Michael F Hilton and Harvey A Whiteford

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:9

    Content type: Research

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  31. Health worker motivation can potentially affect the provision of health services. Low morale among the workforce can undermine the quality of service provision and drive workers away from the profession. While...

    Authors: Wilbroad Mutale, Helen Ayles, Virginia Bond, Margaret Tembo Mwanamwenge and Dina Balabanova

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:8

    Content type: Research

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  32. The motivation of health workers (HWs) to deliver services in developing countries has been described as a critical factor in the success of health systems in implementing programmes. How the sociocultural con...

    Authors: Anna Tynan, Andrew Vallely, Angela Kelly, Martha Kupul, James Neo, Richard Naketrumb, Herick Aeno, Greg Law, John Milan, Peter Siba, John Kaldor and Peter S Hill

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:7

    Content type: Research

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  33. Research on practical and effective governance of the health workforce is limited. This paper examines health system strengthening as it occurs in the intersection between the health workforce and governance b...

    Authors: Avril D Kaplan, Sarah Dominis, John GH Palen and Estelle E Quain

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:6

    Content type: Research

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  35. In the face of severe faculty shortages in resource-constrained countries, medical schools look to e-learning for improved access to medical education. This paper summarizes the literature on e-learning in low...

    Authors: Seble Frehywot, Yianna Vovides, Zohray Talib, Nadia Mikhail, Heather Ross, Hannah Wohltjen, Selam Bedada, Kristine Korhumel, Abdel Karim Koumare and James Scott

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:4

    Content type: Review

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  36. This study forecasts physician supply between 2012 and 2030 using cohort analysis, based on future production capacity and losses from the profession, and assesses if, and by when, the projected numbers of phy...

    Authors: Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Thunthita Wisaijohn, Noppakun Thammathacharee and Viroj Tangcharoensathien

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:3

    Content type: Research

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  37. Job satisfaction largely determines the productivity and efficiency of human resource for health. It literally depicts the extent to which professionals like or dislike their jobs. Job satisfaction is said to ...

    Authors: Ramesh Kumar, Jamil Ahmed, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Rehan Hafeez and Assad Hafeez

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2013 11:2

    Content type: Research

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  39. In 1997, regional specialist training was established in Fiji, consisting of one-year Postgraduate Diplomas followed by three-year master’s degree programs in anesthesia, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecolo...

    Authors: Kimberly Oman, Elizabeth Rodgers, Kim Usher and Robert Moulds

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:48

    Content type: Case study

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  40. The emigration of skilled nurses from the Philippines is an ongoing phenomenon that has impacted the quality and quantity of the nursing workforce, while strengthening the domestic economy through remittances....

    Authors: Roland M Dimaya, Mary K McEwen, Leslie A Curry and Elizabeth H Bradley

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:47

    Content type: Research

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  41. Oral health services are inadequate and unevenly distributed in many developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa. Rural areas in these countries and poorer sections of the population in urba...

    Authors: Leo Ndiangang Achembong, Agbor Michael Ashu, Amy Hagopian, Ann Downer and Scott Barnhart

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:46

    Content type: Research

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  42. To understand the roles of nurses with advanced training in paediatrics in the Solomon Islands, and the importance of these roles to child health. To understand how adequately equipped child health nurses feel...

    Authors: Samantha Colquhoun, Divi Ogaoga, Mathias Tamou, Titus Nasi, Rami Subhi and Trevor Duke

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:45

    Content type: Research

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  43. In recognition of the critical shortage of human resources within health services, community health workers have been trained and deployed to provide primary health care in developing countries. However, very ...

    Authors: Araya Medhanyie, Mark Spigt, GeertJan Dinant and Roman Blanco

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:44

    Content type: Research

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  44. Competency-based education (CBE) provides a useful alternative to time-based models for preparing health professionals and constructing educational programs. We describe the concept of ‘competence’ and ‘compet...

    Authors: Larry D Gruppen, Rajesh S Mangrulkar and Joseph C Kolars

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:43

    Content type: Review

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  45. Primary care, an essential determinant of health system equity, efficiency, and effectiveness, is threatened by inadequate supply and distribution of the provider workforce. The Veterans Health Administration ...

    Authors: Perri A Morgan, David H Abbott, Rebecca B McNeil and Deborah A Fisher

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:42

    Content type: Research

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  46. Uganda, like many developing countries, is committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. However, serious challenges prove to hamper the attainment of these goals, particularly the he...

    Authors: George William Lutwama, Janetta Hendrika Roos and Bethabile Lovely Dolamo

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:41

    Content type: Research

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  47. User fees for primary care services were removed in rural districts in Zambia in 2006. Experience from other countries has suggested that health workers play a key role in determining the success of a fee remo...

    Authors: Barbara S Carasso, Mylene Lagarde, Caesar Cheelo, Collins Chansa and Natasha Palmer

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:40

    Content type: Research

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  48. Although access to life-saving treatment for patients infected with HIV in South Africa has improved substantially since 2004, treating all eligible patients (universal access) remains elusive. As the prices o...

    Authors: Jan AC Hontelez, Marie-Louise Newell, Ruth M Bland, Kristen Munnelly, Richard J Lessells and Till Bärnighausen

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:39

    Content type: Research

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  49. There is great interest in providing primary eye care (PEC) through integration into primary health care (PHC). However, there is little evidence of the productivity of PHC workers in offering primary eye care...

    Authors: Khumbo Kalua, Ruby Tionenji Ng’ongola, Frank Mbewe and Clare Gilbert

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:37

    Content type: Research

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  50. During 2001–2007, the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India admitted 80 trainees in its two-year Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP). We evaluated the first seven years ...

    Authors: Tarun Bhatnagar, Mohan D Gupte, Yvan J Hutin, Prabhdeep Kaur, Vasanthapuram Kumaraswami, Ponnaiah Manickam, Manoj Murhekar, Vidya Ramachandran and Ramachandran Ramakrishnan

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:36

    Content type: Research

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