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  1. Lack of programmatic support and supervision is one of the underlying reasons of the poor performance of Pakistan’s Lady Health Worker Program (LHWP). This study describes the findings and potential for scale-...

    Authors: Wafa Aftab, Suneel Piryani and Fauziah Rabbani
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:99
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  2. Visa trainees (international medical graduates [IMG] who train in Canada under a student or employment visa) are expected to return home after completing their training. We examine the retention patterns of vi...

    Authors: Maria Mathews, Dania Koudieh, Yanqing Yi, Lindsay Hedden, Emily Gard Marshall, Asoka Samarasena, Geoff Barnum and Ivy Bourgeault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:98
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  3. Providing sufficient numbers of human resources for health is essential for effective and accessible health services. Between 2013 and 2018, the Brazilian Ministry of Health implemented the Programa Mais Médicos ...

    Authors: Charlotte Bexson, Christopher Millett, Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos, Ricardo de Sousa Soares, Felipe Proenço de Oliveira and Thomas Hone
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:97
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  4. A simple indicator of technical efficiency, such as productivity of health workers, measured using routine health facility data, can be a practical approach that can inform initiatives to improve efficiency in...

    Authors: Md Zabir Hasan, Girmaye D. Dinsa and Peter Berman
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:96
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  5. Demographic and epidemiological changes have prompted thinking on the need to broaden the child health agenda to include care for complex and chronic conditions in the 0–19 years (paediatric) age range. Provid...

    Authors: Yingxi Zhao, Christiane Hagel, Raymond Tweheyo, Nathanael Sirili, David Gathara and Mike English
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:95
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  6. The full participation of women as healthcare providers is recognized globally as critical to favorable outcomes at all levels, including the healthcare system, to achieving universal health coverage and susta...

    Authors: Basnama Ayaz, Maria Athina Martimianakis, Carles Muntaner and Sioban Nelson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:94
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. One of the biggest barriers to accessing safe surgical and anesthetic care is lack of trained providers. Uganda has one of the largest deficits in anesthesia providers in the world, and though they are increas...

    Authors: Tyler J. Law, Shivani Subhedar, Fred Bulamba, Nathan N. O’Hara, Mary T. Nabukenya, Cornelius Sendagire, Adam Hewitt-Smith, Michael S. Lipnick and Janat Tumukunde
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:93
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. The retirement of a family physician can represent a challenge in accessibility and continuity of care for patients. In this population-based, longitudinal cohort study, we assess whether and how long it takes...

    Authors: Lindsay Hedden, Megan A. Ahuja, M. Ruth Lavergne, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Michael R. Law, Lucy Cheng and Morris L. Barer
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:92
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  9. To strengthen health systems, the shortage of physicians globally needs to be addressed. However, efforts to increase the numbers of physicians must be balanced with controls on medical education imparted and ...

    Authors: Wafa Aftab, Mishal Khan, Sonia Rego, Nishant Chavan, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Isha Sharma, Shishi Wu, Zahra Zeinali, Rumina Hasan and Sameen Siddiqi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:91
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  10. The shortage of doctors and their unequal distribution serve as challenges to advancing primary healthcare (PHC) and achieving effective universal healthcare coverage in Brazil. In an effort to use nurses’ pot...

    Authors: Carinne Magnago and Celia Regina Pierantoni
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:90
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  11. Health workforce planning provides a crucial evidence-base for decision-makers in the development and deployment of a fit-for-purpose workforce. Although less common, health workforce planning at the regional ...

    Authors: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Sarah Simkin
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:87
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

    The original article was published in Human Resources for Health 2021 19:86

    The original article was published in Human Resources for Health 2021 19:85

  12. Health workforce planning capability at a regional level is increasingly necessary to ensure that the healthcare needs of defined local populations can be met by the health workforce. In 2016, a regional healt...

    Authors: Sarah Simkin, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:86
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Human Resources for Health 2021 19:87

  13. A regional health authority in Toronto, Canada, identified health workforce planning as an essential input to the implementation of their comprehensive Primary Care Strategy. The goal of this project was to de...

    Authors: Caroline Chamberland-Rowe, Sarah Simkin and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:85
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    The Commentary to this article has been published in Human Resources for Health 2021 19:87

  15. To investigate opportunities for task shifting to decongest an outpatient neurology clinic in Zambia by describing current patient flow through the clinic and potential nodes for intervention using process map...

    Authors: Ana C. Villegas, Deanna Saylor, Michelle Kvalsund, Masharip Atadzhanov, Clarence Chiluba, Lorraine Chishimba, Stanley Zimba, Mashina Chomba and Omar K. Siddiqi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:88
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  17. By 2050, the global demand for orthotic and prosthetic services is expected to double. Unfortunately, the orthotic/prosthetic workforce is not well placed to meet this growing demand. Strengthening the regulat...

    Authors: Leigh Clarke, Louise Puli, Emily Ridgewell, Michael P. Dillon and Sarah Anderson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:83
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the extreme needs of the public health workforce. As societies discuss how to build up the capacity and infrastructure of their systems, it is crucial that young profession...

    Authors: Brian Li Han Wong, Ines Siepmann, Tara T. Chen, Shelby Fisher, Tobias S. Weitzel, Naomi L. Nathan and Diah S. Saminarsih
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:82
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  19. Depression is a major population health challenge globally. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to (i) determine depression prevalence and (ii) identify the risk and protective factors of depression ...

    Authors: Amit Abraham, Karima Chaabna, Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy, Sapna Bhagat, Javaid Sheikh, Ravinder Mamtani and Sohaila Cheema
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:81
    Content type: Review Published on:

  21. Pharmacists are a crucial part of the health workforce and play an important role in achieving universal health coverage. In China, pharmaceutical human resources are in short supply, and the distribution is u...

    Authors: Ping Liu, Shimeng Liu, Tiantian Gong, Quan Li, Gang Chen and Shunping Li
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:79
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  22. The World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) Recognition Programme was created to ensure the comparability of medical school accrediting agencies, so that the schools accredited by those agencies would ha...

    Authors: Kahlo Baniadam, Zakia Arfeen, Mohammed Ahmed Rashid, Ming-Jung Ho and Sean Tackett
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:78
    Content type: Hypothesis Published on:

  23. Polish healthcare providers already struggle with a deficiency concerning human resources, especially with regard to doctors and nurses. Because of this, effective HRM interventions should be taken in order to...

    Authors: Beata Buchelt, Bernard Ziębicki, Joanna Jończyk and Joanna Dzieńdziora
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:77
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  24. An effective response to an emergency situation relies on health care workers’ preparedness. The main purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of relevant studies regarding the willingness...

    Authors: Hamideh Nafar, Emir Tahmazi Aghdam, Naser Derakhshani, Nadia Sani’ee, Sakineh Sharifian and Salime Goharinezhad
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:76
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. Quality of training is determined through programs’ compliance with accreditation standards, often set for a number of years. However, perspectives on quality of training within these standards may differ from...

    Authors: Nesibe Akdemir, Romana Malik, Theanne Walters, Stanley Hamstra and Fedde Scheele
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:75
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  27. Safety climate is an essential component of achieving Universal Health Coverage, with several organisational, unit or team-level, and individual health worker factors identified as influencing safety climate. ...

    Authors: Frédérique Vallières, Paul Mubiri, Samuel Agyei Agyemang, Samuel Amon, Jana Gerold, Tim Martineau, Ann Nolan, Thomasena O’Byrne, Lifah Sanudi, Freddie Sengooba and Helen Prytherch
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:73
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  29. Japan has opened its labor market to care workers from Indonesia under the Japan–Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). However, few studies have examined the types of care skills transferred between ...

    Authors: Yuko O. Hirano, Susiana Nugraha, Hiroyasu Shiozu, Misako Higashijima and Tri Budi W. Rahardjo
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:71
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Accreditation systems in medical education aim to assure various stakeholders that graduates are ready to further their training or begin practice. The purpose of this paper is to explore the current state of ...

    Authors: Deborah Bedoll, Marta van Zanten and Danette McKinley
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:70
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  31. Less attractive specialties in medicine are struggling to recruit and retain physicians. When properly organized and delivered, continuing medical education (CME) activities that include short courses, coachin...

    Authors: Van Anh Thi Nguyen, Karen D. Könings, Albert J. J. A. Scherpbier and Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:69
    Content type: Review Published on:

  32. Job satisfaction refers to the feeling of contentment one experiences with their job. Job satisfaction among opticians is a crucial variable in determining their motivation and has consequential influence on t...

    Authors: Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo, Akosua Kesewah Asare, Elsie Emelia Yelbert, Emmanuel Kobia-Acquah, Emmanuel Kofi Addo, Eldad Agyei-Manu, Thomas Brusah and Prince Antwi Asenso
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:68
    Content type: Research Published on:

  33. Guinea undertook health workforce reform in 2016 following the Ebola outbreak to overcome decades-long shortages and maldistribution of healthcare workers (HCWs). Specifically, over 5000 HCWs were recruited an...

    Authors: Delphin Kolie, Remco Van De Pas, Alexandre Delamou, Nafissatou Dioubaté, Foromo Timothée Beavogui, Patrice Bouedouno, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Abdoulaye Kaba, Willem Van De Put and Wim Van Damme
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:67
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Increasing evidence suggests that sustainable delivery of interprofessional education (IPE) has the potential to lead to interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), which in turn has the potential to lead...

    Authors: Mohammad Azzam, Anton Puvirajah, Marie-Andrée Girard and Ruby E. Grymonpre
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:66
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. The gender pay gap in the United States (US) has narrowed over the last several decades, with the female/male earnings ratio in the US increased from about 60% before the 1980s to about 79% by 2014. However, t...

    Authors: Zhuo Chen, Yihong Zhang, Huabin Luo, Donglan Zhang, Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa, Yuheng Wang, Ruoxi Wang and Grace Bagwell-Adams
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:65
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. The COVID-19 pandemic posed a huge challenge to the education systems worldwide, forcing many countries to provisionally close educational institutions and deliver courses fully online. The aim of this study w...

    Authors: Wen Li, Robyn Gillies, Mingyu He, Changhao Wu, Shenjun Liu, Zheng Gong and Hong Sun
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:64
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. In many countries, migrant physicians (MP) tend to fill staff shortages in medical specialties perceived as low status. The aim of this study was to explore aspects that influence MPs’, with a medical degree f...

    Authors: Linda Sturesson, Per J. Palmgren, Magnus Öhlander, Gunnar H. Nilsson and Terese Stenfors
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:63
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Historically, immigration has been a significant population driver in Canada. In October 2020, immigration targets were raised to an unprecedented level to support economic recovery in response to COVID-19. In...

    Authors: Andrea Baumann, Mary Crea-Arsenio, Dana Ross and Jennifer Blythe
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:62
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  39. Task shifting and sharing (TS/S) involves the redistribution of health tasks within workforces and communities. Conceptual frameworks lay out the key factors, constructs, and variables involved in a given phen...

    Authors: Aaron M. Orkin, Sampreeth Rao, Jeyasakthi Venugopal, Natasha Kithulegoda, Pete Wegier, Stephen D. Ritchie, David VanderBurgh, Alexandra Martiniuk, Fabio Salamanca-Buentello and Ross Upshur
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:61
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. In 2014, Nigeria issued the task-shifting/sharing policy for essential health services, which aimed to fill the human resource gap and improve the delivery of health services across the country. This study foc...

    Authors: Babajide Oluseyi Daini, Emeka Okafor, Sikiru Baruwa, Oluwafunmito Adeyanju, Rodio Diallo and Jennifer Anyanti
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:60
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Sexual harassment is a ubiquitous problem that prevents women’s integration and retention in the workforce. Its prevalence had been documented in previous health sector studies in Uganda, indicating that it af...

    Authors: Constance Newman, Alice Nayebare, Stella Neema, Allan Agaba and Lilian Perry Akello
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:59
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. Rapid and effective emergency response to address health security relies on a competent and suitably trained local and international workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that the health security wo...

    Authors: Amy Elizabeth Parry, Martyn D. Kirk, David N. Durrheim, Babatunde Olowokure, Samantha M. Colquhoun and Tambri Housen
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:58
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) care shifted from centralized to decentralized care in Tanzania in 2015. This study explored whether DR-TB training and mentoring supported healthcare workers’ (HCWs) DR-TB care perfo...

    Authors: Dennis Lyakurwa, Johnson Lyimo, Christiaan Mulder, Puck T. Pelzer, Inge Koppelaar and Marleen Heus
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:56
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), as part of its 2030 National Transformation Program, set a goal of transforming the healthcare sector to increase access to, and improve the quality and efficiency of, health...

    Authors: Samantha Gailey, Tim A. Bruckner, Tracy Kuo Lin, Jenny X. Liu, Mohammed Alluhidan, Taghred Alghaith, Hussah Alghodaier, Nabiha Tashkandi, Christopher H. Herbst, Mariam M. Hamza and Nahar Alazemi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:55
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Well-trained, competent, and motivated human resources for health (HRH) are crucial to delivering quality service provision across the sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn health (SRMNH) care continuum ...

    Authors: Melese Girmaye Negero, David Sibbritt and Angela Dawson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:54
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. Many challenges exist in providing equitable access to rural healthcare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WHO recommends student exposure to rural clinical rotations to promote interest in rural h...

    Authors: Susan Michaels-Strasser, Paul W. Thurman, Narcisse Mwinkeu Kasongo, Daniel Kapenda, John Ngulefac, Beatrice Lukeni, Serge Matumaini, Lauren Parmley, Rebekah Hughes and Faustin Malele
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:53
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  48. There is limited information on how the barriers to interprofessional collaboration (IPC) across various professionals, organizations, and care facilities influence the health and welfare of older adults. This...

    Authors: TJ Robinson T. Moncatar, Keiko Nakamura, Kathryn Lizbeth L. Siongco, Kaoruko Seino, Rebecca Carlson, Carmelita C. Canila, Richard S. Javier and Fely Marilyn E. Lorenzo
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. There is a growing recognition that underutilization and underemployment of skilled immigrants, especially internationally trained health professionals, creates a financial burden on individuals and economic l...

    Authors: Tanvir C. Turin, Nashit Chowdhury, Mark Ekpekurede, Deidre Lake, Mohammad Ali Ashraf Lasker, Mary O’Brien and Suzanne Goopy
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:51
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Digital technologies are rapidly being integrated into a wide range of health fields. This new domain, often termed ‘digital health’, has the potential to significantly improve healthcare outcomes and global h...

    Authors: Brian L. H. Wong, Mark P. Khurana, Robert D. Smith, Omnia El-Omrani, Ave Pold, Amine Lotfi, Charlotte A. O’Leary and Diah S. Saminarsih
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2021 19:50
    Content type: Commentary Published on:
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