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  1. Research on health worker migration in the Irish context has categorized migrant health workers by country or region of training (for example, non-EU nurses or doctors) or recruitment mechanism (for example, a...

    Authors: Niamh Humphries, Sara McAleese, Ella Tyrrell, Steve Thomas, Charles Normand and Ruairí Brugha
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:52
  2. A medium- and long-term perspective is required in human resource development to ensure that future needs and demands for oral healthcare are met by the most appropriate health professionals. This paper presen...

    Authors: Jennifer E Gallagher, Sivakumar Manickam and Nairn HF Wilson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:50
  3. The establishment of a functional information system for human resource for health (HRH) was one of the major challenges for the Tanzanian health sector. In 2008, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare deve...

    Authors: Hisahiro Ishijima, Martin Mapunda, Mathew Mndeme, Felix Sukums and Violeth Solomon Mlay
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:48
  4. Malaysia has experienced a significant expansion of dental schools over the past decade. Research into students’ motivation may inform recruitment and retention of the future dental workforce. The objectives o...

    Authors: Muhd Firdaus Che Musa, Eduardo Bernabé and Jennifer E Gallagher
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:47
  5. In 2012, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), Tanzania, approved national guidelines and training materials for community health workers (CHWs) in integrated maternal, newborn and child health (I...

    Authors: Rose N M Mpembeni, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Amnesty LeFevre, Dereck Chitama, David P Urassa, Charles Kilewo, Rebecca M Mdee, Helen Semu, Peter J Winch, Japhet Killewo, Abdullah H Baqui and Asha George
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:44
  6. The health system of Iraqi Kurdistan is severely understudied, particularly with regard to patient-physician interactions and their effects. We examine patterns of behaviour among physicians in Kurdistan, the ...

    Authors: Goshan Karadaghi and Chris Willott
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:43
  7. In this paper, we analyse the medical specialty training system in Spain (the so-called “residency system”). In order to do so, we a) summarize its historical evolution; b) describe the five major architectura...

    Authors: José-Manuel Freire, Alberto Infante, Adriana Cavalcanti de Aguiar and Pilar Carbajo
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:42
  8. This case study was part of a larger programme of research in Alberta that aims to develop an evidence-based model to optimize centralized intake province-wide to improve access to care. A centralized intake m...

    Authors: Esther Suter, Arden Birney, Paola Charland, Renee Misfeldt, Stephen Weiss, Jane Squire Howden, Jennifer Hendricks, Theresa Lupton and Deborah Marshall
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:41
  9. The complexity of providing medical care in a high-tech environment with a highly specialized, limited labour force makes hospitals more crisis-prone than other industries. An effective defence against crises ...

    Authors: Carsten C Schermuly, Michael Draheim, Ronald Glasberg, Vladimir Stantchev, Gerrit Tamm, Michael Hartmann and Franz Hessel
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:40
  10. Planning the health-care workforce required to meet the health needs of the population, while providing service levels that maximize the outcome and minimize the financial costs, is a complex task. The problem...

    Authors: Mário Amorim Lopes, Álvaro Santos Almeida and Bernardo Almada-Lobo
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:38
  11. Successful endorsement of quality indicators hinges on the readiness and acceptability of care providers for those measures. This paper aims to assess the readiness of care providers in the primary health-care...

    Authors: Mohamad Alameddine, Shadi Saleh and Nabil Natafgi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:37
  12. Retention of human resources for health (HRH), particularly physicians and nurses in rural and remote areas, is a major problem in Bangladesh. We reviewed relevant policies and provisions in relation to HRH ai...

    Authors: Lal B Rawal, Taufique Joarder, Sheikh Md. Shariful Islam, Aftab Uddin and Syed Masud Ahmed
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:36
  13. Achieving a sustainable health workforce involves training and retaining sufficient staff to deliver health services. The Irish health workforce is characterised by a high level of emigration of Irish-trained ...

    Authors: Niamh Humphries, Sara McAleese, Anne Matthews and Ruairi Brugha
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:35
  14. In China, public hospital reform has been underway for almost 5 years, and 311 pilot county hospitals are the current focus. This study aimed to assess the job satisfaction and active participation of medical ...

    Authors: Pengqian Fang, Zhenni Luo and Zi Fang
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:34
  15. Human resources for health are self-evidently critical to running a health service and system. There is, however, a wider set of social issues which is more rarely considered. One area which is hinted at in li...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Maria Paola Bertone, Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo, João S Martins, Ahmad Shah Salehi, Enrico Pavignani and Tim Martineau
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:33
  16. Data describing the Australian allied health workforce is inadequate and so insufficient for workforce planning. National health policy reform requires that health-care models take into account future workforc...

    Authors: Daniela Solomon, Nicholas Graves and Judith Catherwood
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:32
  17. The Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Health Management, launched by the Govt. of India under the aegis of the National Rural Health Mission in 2008, aims to enhance the managerial capabilities of public health ...

    Authors: Preeti Negandhi, Himanshu Negandhi, Kavya Sharma, Sarah Wild and Sanjay Zodpey
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:31
  18. A global shortage of health workers in rural areas increases the salience of motivating and supporting existing health workers. Understandings of motivation may vary in different settings, and it is important ...

    Authors: Joanna Morrison, Neha Batura, Rita Thapa, Regina Basnyat and Jolene Skordis-Worrall
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:30
  19. In labour market policy and planning, it is important to understand the motivations of people to continue in their current job or to seek other employment. Over the last decade, besides the increasingly medica...

    Authors: J Catja Warmelink, Therese A Wiegers, T Paul de Cock, Evelien R Spelten and Eileen K Hutton
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:29
  20. Inequitable distribution of the medical workforce is an international problem that undermines universal access to healthcare. Governments in many countries have invested in rural-focused medical education prog...

    Authors: Jane Farmer, Amanda Kenny, Carol McKinstry and Richard D Huysmans
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:27
  21. In 2009, health-care reform was launched to achieve universal health coverage in China. A good understanding of how China’s health reforms are influencing village doctors’ income structure will assist authorit...

    Authors: Shengfa Zhang, Weijun Zhang, Huixuan Zhou, Huiwen Xu, Zhiyong Qu, Mengqi Guo, Fugang Wang, You Zhong, Linni Gu, Xiaoyun Liang, Zhihong Sa, Xiaohua Wang and Donghua Tian
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:26
  22. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being used in low-income countries to address human resources shortages, yet there remain few effective, evidence-based strategies for addressing the enduring p...

    Authors: Daniel Llywelyn Strachan, Karin Källander, Maureen Nakirunda, Sozinho Ndima, Abel Muiambo and Zelee Hill
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:25
  23. The health systems in the Americas region are characterized by fragmentation and segmentation, which constitute an important barrier to expanding coverage, achieving integrated primary health care, and reducin...

    Authors: Mario Roberto Dal Poz, Hernan Rodrigo Sepulveda, Maria Helena Costa Couto, Charles Godue, Monica Padilla, Rick Cameron and Thais de Andrade Vidaurre Franco
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2015 13:24
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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