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  1. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly recognized as a critical link in improving access to services and achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals. Given the financial and human resou...

    Authors: Wanda Jaskiewicz and Kate Tulenko

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:38

    Content type: Research

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  2. Economically developed countries have recruited large numbers of overseas health workers to fill domestic shortages. Recognition of the negative impact this can have on health care in developing countries led ...

    Authors: Claire Blacklock, Carl Heneghan, David Mant and Alison M Ward

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:35

    Content type: Research

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  4. Leadership is widely regarded as central to effective health-care systems, and resources are increasingly devoted to the cultivation of strong health-care leadership. Nevertheless, the literature regarding lea...

    Authors: Leslie Curry, Lauren Taylor, Peggy Guey-Chi Chen and Elizabeth Bradley

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:33

    Content type: Research

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  6. Here, the educational and labour market characteristics of Mexican dentists are revised. Dentistry is a health profession that has been scarcely studied in developing countries. This analysis attempts to under...

    Authors: Luz María González-Robledo, María Cecilia González-Robledo and Gustavo Nigenda

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:31

    Content type: Commentary

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  7. Quality of work life (QWL) is defined as the extent to which an employee is satisfied with personal and working needs through participating in the workplace while achieving the goals of the organization. QWL h...

    Authors: Mohammed J Almalki, Gerry FitzGerald and Michele Clark

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:30

    Content type: Research

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  9. The employment of physician assistants (PAs) is a strategy to improve access to care. Since the new millennium, a handful of countries have turned to PAs as a means to bridge the growing gap between the supply...

    Authors: Luppo Kuilman, Roos MB Nieweg, Cees P van der Schans, Jaap H Strijbos and Roderick S Hooker

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:28

    Content type: Research

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  10. The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a developing country in South Asia with a population of 29.8 million. In September 2011, there were 18 medical schools with 14 being in the private sector. KIST Medi...

    Authors: P Ravi Shankar and Trilok P Thapa

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:27

    Content type: Case study

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  12. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that strengthening health systems, through improved leadership and management skills of health teams, can contribute to an increase in health-service deliver...

    Authors: La Rue K Seims, Juan Carlos Alegre, Lily Murei, Joan Bragar, Nandita Thatte, Peter Kibunga and Sammuel Cheburet

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:25

    Content type: Research

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  14. Economic downturns and recession lead to budget cuts and service reductions in the healthcare sector which often precipitate layoffs and hiring freezes. Nurses, being the largest professional group in healthca...

    Authors: Mohamad Alameddine, Andrea Baumann, Audrey Laporte and Raisa Deber

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:23

    Content type: Review

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  16. In many countries, health-care labour markets are constantly being challenged by an alternation of shortage and oversupply. Avoiding these cyclic variations is a major challenge. In the Netherlands, a workforc...

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

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:21

    Content type: Case study

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  17. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aim to improve population health and the quality and dignity of people’s lives, but their achievement is constrained by the crisis in human resources for health. An impo...

    Authors: Hasheem Mannan, Camille Boostrom, Malcolm MacLachlan, Eilish McAuliffe, Chapal Khasnabis and Neeru Gupta

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:20

    Content type: Review

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  18. In many developing countries, such as India, information on human resources in the health sector is incomplete and unreliable. This prevents effective workforce planning and management. This paper aims to addr...

    Authors: Krishna D Rao, Aarushi Bhatnagar and Peter Berman

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:19

    Content type: Research

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  19. Some studies have suggested that young physicians may have different expectations and practice behaviours than their older generational counterparts, including their reasons for wanting to remain or leave a co...

    Authors: Maria Mathews, Maureen Seguin, Nurun Chowdhury and Robert T Card

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:18

    Content type: Research

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  20. Research on the mal-distribution of health care workers has focused mainly on physicians and nurses. To meet the Millennium Development Goal Five and the reproductive needs of all women, it is predicted that a...

    Authors: Jody R Lori, Sarah D Rominski, Mawuli Gyakobo, Eunice W Muriu, Nakua E Kweku and Peter Agyei-Baffour

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:17

    Content type: Research

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  22. We recently proposed that Lebanon could become a regional ‘academic hub’ through the repatriation of emigrated Lebanese physicians who would then provide clinical services in the Arab Gulf region on a locum te...

    Authors: Elie A Akl, Nancy Maroun, Khalil El-Asmar, Eliane Abou Jaoude, Jihad Irani and Kamal Badr

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:15

    Content type: Research

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  23. Health workers’ attitudes toward immigrant patients influence behaviour, medical decisions, quality of care and health outcomes. Despite the increasing number of immigrant patients in health services and the p...

    Authors: Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, Helena Cargaleiro and Maria O Martins

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:14

    Content type: Research

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  24. Although rates of maternal and neonatal mortality have decreased in many countries over the last two decades, they remain unacceptably high, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, we know little abo...

    Authors: Heather L Sipsma, Leslie A Curry, Jean-Baptiste Kakoma, Erika L Linnander and Elizabeth H Bradley

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:13

    Content type: Research

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  25. The debate over physicians’ geographical distribution has attracted the attention of the economic and public health literature over the last forty years. Nonetheless, it is still to date unclear what influence...

    Authors: Giuliano Russo, Paulo Ferrinho, Bruno de Sousa and Cláudia Conceição

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:12

    Content type: Research

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  26. We developed and piloted a methodology to establish TB related work load at primary care level for clinical and laboratory staff. Workload is influenced by activities to be implemented, time to perform them, t...

    Authors: Lucie Blok, Susan van den Hof, Sayoki G Mfinanga, Amos Kahwa, Esther Ngadaya, Liesbeth Oey and Marjolein Dieleman

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:11

    Content type: Methodology

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  27. Cuba has extended its medical cooperation to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by supplying doctors to boost service delivery and offering scholarships for Pacific Islanders to study medicine in Cuba. Given the ...

    Authors: Augustine D Asante, Joel Negin, John Hall, John Dewdney and Anthony B Zwi

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:10

    Content type: Review

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  28. Despite working in a challenging environment plagued by persistent personnel shortages, public sector midwives in Senegal play a key role in tackling maternal mortality. A better understanding of how they are ...

    Authors: Dominique Rouleau, Pierre Fournier, Aline Philibert, Betty Mbengue and Alexandre Dumont

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:9

    Content type: Research

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  29. Migration and ethical recruitment of health care workers is receiving increased attention worldwide. Europe’s aging population is creating new opportunities for medical doctors for finding employment in other ...

    Authors: Krzysztof Krajewski-Siuda, Adam Szromek, Piotr Romaniuk, Christian A Gericke, Andrzej Szpak and Krzysztof Kaczmarek

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:8

    Content type: Research

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  30. Although attainment of the health-related Millennium Development Goals relies on countries having adequate numbers of human resources for health (HRH) and their appropriate distribution, global understanding o...

    Authors: Patricia L Riley, Alexandra Zuber, Stephen M Vindigni, Neeru Gupta, Andre R Verani, Nadine L Sunderland, Michael Friedman, Pascal Zurn, Chijioke Okoro, Heather Patrick and James Campbell

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:7

    Content type: Review

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  31. In Mexico 87% of births are attended by physicians. However, the decline in the national maternal mortality rate has been slower than expected. The Mexican Ministry of Health’s 2009 strategy to reduce maternal...

    Authors: Lisa M DeMaria, Lourdes Campero, Marianne Vidler and Dilys Walker

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:6

    Content type: Research

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  32. Professional dental auxiliaries emerged in the early 20th century in the United States of America and quickly spread to Europe and other regions of the world. In Brazil, however, oral health technicians (OHTs)...

    Authors: Carla Aparecida Sanglard-Oliveira, Marcos Azeredo Furquim Werneck, Simone Dutra Lucas and Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães Abreu

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:5

    Content type: Review

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  33. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers a disproportionate share of the world's burden of disease while having some of the world's greatest health care workforce shortages. Doctors are an important component of any high fu...

    Authors: Candice Chen, Eric Buch, Travis Wassermann, Seble Frehywot, Fitzhugh Mullan, Francis Omaswa, S Ryan Greysen, Joseph C Kolars, Delanyo Dovlo, Diaa Eldin El Gali Abu Bakr, Abraham Haileamlak, Abdel Karim Koumare and Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:4

    Content type: Research

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  34. Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in funds for procurement of health commodities in developing countries. A major challenge now is the efficient delivery of commodities and services to improve p...

    Authors: Fatuma Manzi, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Guy Hutton, Kaspar Wyss, Conrad Mbuya, Kizito Shirima, Hassan Mshinda, Marcel Tanner and David Schellenberg

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:3

    Content type: Research

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  35. Modern healthcare managers are faced with pressure to deliver effective, efficient services within the context of fixed budget constraints. Managers are required to make decisions regarding the skill mix of th...

    Authors: Linda Cartmill, Tracy A Comans, Michele J Clark, Susan Ash and Lorraine Sheppard

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:2

    Content type: Review

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  36. One group often identified as having low socioeconomic status, those living in remote or rural areas, are often recognised as bearing an unequal burden of illness in society. This paper aims to examine equity ...

    Authors: Deborah J Schofield, Rupendra N Shrestha and Emily J Callander

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2012 10:1

    Content type: Research

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  38. Despite an increase in efforts to address shortage and performance of Human Resources for Health (HRH), HRH problems continue to hamper quality service delivery. We believe that the influence of governance is ...

    Authors: Marjolein Dieleman and Thea Hilhorst

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:29

    Content type: Editorial

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  39. With 15-30% met need for comprehensive emergency obstetrical care (CEmOC) and a 3% caesarean section rate, Tanzania needs to expand the number of facilities providing these services in more remote areas. Consi...

    Authors: Angelo S Nyamtema, Senga K Pemba, Godfrey Mbaruku, Fulgence D Rutasha and Jos van Roosmalen

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:28

    Content type: Research

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  40. Over thirty years have passed since the Alma-Ata Declaration on primary health care in 1978. Many governments in the first decade following the declaration responded by developing national programmes of commun...

    Authors: Jason B Christopher, Alex Le May, Simon Lewin and David A Ross

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:27

    Content type: Review

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  43. One of the components of the Health Observatory for Latin American and the Caribbean (HO-LAC) is the design and implementation of metrics for human resources for health. Under the HO-LAC initiative, researcher...

    Authors: Gustavo G Nigenda Jr, Maria H Machado, Fernando F Ruiz, Victor V Carrasco, Patricia P Moliné and Sabado S Girardi

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:24

    Content type: Case study

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  44. There is a growing interest in using pay-for-performance mechanisms in low and middle-income countries in order to improve the performance of health care providers. However, at present there is a dearth of ind...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Tehzeeb Zulfiqur, Sarah Javeed, Amanullah Khan and Abdul Bari

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:23

    Content type: Research

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  46. Community participation in vector control and health services in general is of great interest to public health practitioners in developing countries, but remains complex and poorly understood. The Urban Malari...

    Authors: Prosper P Chaki, Stefan Dongus, Ulrike Fillinger, Ann Kelly and Gerry F Killeen

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:21

    Content type: Research

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  47. Motivation and retention of health workers, particularly in rural areas, is a question of considerable interest to policy-makers internationally. Many countries, including Vietnam, are debating the right mix o...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Bakhuti Shengalia and Marko Vujicic

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:20

    Content type: Research

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  48. Workplace violence has been documented in all sectors, but female-dominated sectors such as health and social services are at particular risk. In 2007-2008, IntraHealth International assisted the Rwanda Minist...

    Authors: Constance J Newman, Daniel H de Vries, Jeanne d'Arc Kanakuze and Gerard Ngendahimana

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:19

    Content type: Research

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