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The shortage of a skilled health workforce is a global crisis. International efforts to combat the crisis have shown few benefits; therefore, more country-specific efforts are required. Tanzania adopted health...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:27
Published on: 4 April 2017
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Global trends in migration accompanied with recent changes to the immigrant selection process may have influenced the demographic and human capital characteristics of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:26
Published on: 4 April 2017
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Dramatic increases in the migration of human resources for health (HRH) from developing countries like the Philippines can have consequences on the sustainability of health systems. In this paper, we trace the...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:25
Published on: 31 March 2017
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Shortages of physicians in remote, rural and other underserved areas and lack of general practitioners limit access to health services. The aims of this article are to identify the challenges faced by policy a...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:24
Published on: 23 March 2017
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Until recently, there were only a few medical schools in Ethiopia. However, currently, in response to the apparent shortage in physician workforce, the country has made huge progress with respect to the expans...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:23
Published on: 14 March 2017
Case study
There is an extreme health workforce shortage in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. Shortage of eye care workers impedes effective implementation of prevention of blindness programs. The World Health Organ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:22
Published on: 14 March 2017
Review
Attrition or losses from the health workforce exacerbate critical shortages of health workers and can be a barrier to countries reaching their universal health coverage and equity goals. Despite the importance...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:21
Published on: 1 March 2017
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Performance-based financing (PBF) has been implemented in a number of countries with the aim of transforming health systems and improving maternal and child health. This paper examines the effect of PBF on hea...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:20
Published on: 28 February 2017
Review
Evidence of the cost-effectiveness of community health worker interventions is pertinent for decision-makers and programme planners who are turning to community services in order to strengthen health systems i...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:19
Published on: 28 February 2017
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the state system to remunerate health workers is poorly functional, encouraging diversification of income sources and corruption. Given the central role that health w...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:17
Published on: 20 February 2017
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The “rural pipeline” suggests that students educated in rural, or other underserviced areas, are more likely to establish practices in such locations. It is upon this concept that the Northern Ontario School o...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:16
Published on: 20 February 2017
Erratum
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:18
Published on: 20 February 2017
The original article was published in Human Resources for Health 2017 15:11
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Well-trained, well-distributed and productive health workers are crucial for access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. Because neither a shortage nor a surplus of health workers is wanted, policymaker...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:15
Published on: 17 February 2017
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Evidence-based health workforce policies are essential to ensure the provision of high-quality health services and to support the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). This paper describes the main ch...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:14
Published on: 15 February 2017
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Guinea-Bissau is one of the world’s poorest and least developed countries. Amid poverty, political turmoil and state withdrawal, its health workforce (HW) has been swamped for the last four decades in a deepen...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:12
Published on: 7 February 2017
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In low- and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services.
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:11
Published on: 3 February 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Human Resources for Health 2017 15:18
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While healthcare reform has been a central attention for local governments, its impact on job satisfaction is poorly understood. This study aimed to determine the impact of healthcare reform on job satisfactio...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:10
Published on: 3 February 2017
Case study
An optimal number of health workers, who are appropriately allocated across different occupations and geographical regions, are required to ensure population coverage of health interventions. Health worker sho...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:9
Published on: 26 January 2017
Review
People with disabilities face challenges accessing basic rehabilitation health care. In 2006, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) outlined the global necessity to me...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:8
Published on: 23 January 2017
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Primary health care (PHC) outreach teams are part of a policy of PHC re-engineering in South Africa. It attempts to move the deployment of community health workers (CHWs) from vertical programmes into an integ...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:7
Published on: 21 January 2017
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Migration of healthcare workers is receiving increased attention worldwide. In Europe, the creation of a border-free labor market and its expansion with the EU enlargements of 2004, 2007, and 2013 endowed heal...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:6
Published on: 19 January 2017
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Cape Verdean doctors have always graduated abroad. The first experience of pre-graduate medical education in Cape Verde begun in October 2015. Counting how many doctors Cape Verde has, knowing who they are, an...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:5
Published on: 18 January 2017
Commentary
Large-scale community health worker programs are now growing in importance around the world in response to the resurgence of interest and growing evidence of the importance of community-based primary health ca...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:13
Published on: 12 January 2017
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Community-based programmes, particularly community health workers (CHWs), have been portrayed as a cost-effective alternative to the shortage of health workers in low-income countries. Usually, literature emph...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:4
Published on: 11 January 2017
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The purpose of the study is to explore the reasons why specialist doctors travel to provide regular rural outreach services, and whether reasons relate to (1) salaried or private fee-for-service practice and (...
Human Resources for Health 2017 15:3
Published on: 7 January 2017
