Skip to main content

Articles

Page 5 of 20

  1. Since 2012, The World Health Organization and UNICEF have advocated for community health workers (CHWs) to be trained in Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of common childhood illnesses, such as pneum...

    Authors: James O’Donovan, Kenneth Kabali, Celia Taylor, Margarita Chukhina, Jacqueline C. Kading, Jonathan Fuld and Edward O’Neil

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:49

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  2. In Chile, dentistry has become a very popular career choice for students, which has resulted in a substantial increase in both, the number of dental graduates and dental schools. Nonetheless, there is a need f...

    Authors: Renato E. Venturelli Garay and Richard G. Watt

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:48

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  3. In HIV programs, mentor mothers (MMs) are women living with HIV who provide peer support for other women to navigate HIV care, especially in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). Niger...

    Authors: Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Angela Odiachi, Miriam J. Bathnna, Chinazom N. Ekwueme, Gift Nwanne, Emilia N. Iwu and Llewellyn J. Cornelius

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:47

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  4. Health services in high-income countries increasingly recognise the challenge of effectively serving and engaging with marginalised people. Effective engagement with marginalised people is essential to reduce ...

    Authors: Carolyn Wallace, Jane Farmer and Anthony McCosker

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:46

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  5. Many registered nurses (RNs) increased their participation in the New Zealand health workforce during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), resulting in low vacancy rates. However, based on the documented impact ...

    Authors: Willoughby Moloney, Des Gorman, Matthew Parsons and Gordon Cheung

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:45

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  6. Health leadership and management are essential for ensuring resilient health systems. Relevant training opportunities are often scarce, and the use of digital education could help address this gap. Our aim was...

    Authors: Lorainne Tudor Car, Bhone Myint Kyaw and Rifat Atun

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:44

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  7. Child and youth care workers (CYCWs) are a crucial and growing component of South Africa’s national response to HIV and AIDS and other issues affecting children and families. CYCWs use the community-centred Is...

    Authors: Tonya R. Thurman, Tory M. Taylor, Johanna Nice, Brian Luckett, Myra Taylor and J. D. Kvalsvig

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:43

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  8. One of the effective strategies in the fair distribution of human resources is the use of estimation norm of human workforce. A norm is a coefficient or an indicator for estimating the required human resources...

    Authors: Ali Vafaee-Najar, Mohammadreza Amiresmaeili, Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam and Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:42

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  9. Community health workers (CHWs) are an important human resource in Uganda as they are the first contact of the population with the health system. Understanding gendered roles of CHWs is important in establishi...

    Authors: David Musoke, Charles Ssemugabo, Rawlance Ndejjo, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho and Asha S. George

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:41

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  10. Public institutions have been the major provider of education for health professionals in China for most of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, the Chinese government began to encourage the establishment of p...

    Authors: Jianlin Hou, Zhifeng Wang, Youhui Luo, Joseph C. Kolars and Qingyue Meng

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:40

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  11. To synthesize current understanding of how community-based health worker (CHW) programs can best be designed and operated in health systems.

    Authors: Kerry Scott, S. W. Beckham, Margaret Gross, George Pariyo, Krishna D Rao, Giorgio Cometto and Henry B. Perry

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:39

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  12. Health workers are central to people-centred health systems, resilient economies and sustainable development. Given the rising importance of the health workforce, changing human resource for health (HRH) polic...

    Authors: A.S. George, J. Campbell and A. Ghaffar

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:35

    Content type: Commentary

    Published on:

  13. Primary care in Canada is the first point of entry for patients needing specialized services, the fundamental source of care for those living with chronic illness, and the main supplier of preventive services....

    Authors: Wiesława Dominika Wranik and Susan Marie Haydt

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:38

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  14. We study healthcare employees’ turnover intentions in the Afar National Regional State of Ethiopia. This rural region is experiencing the globally felt crisis in human resources, which is inhibiting its abilit...

    Authors: Joris van de Klundert, Judith van Dongen- van den Broek, Ebrahim Mohammed Yesuf, Jasmijn Vreugdenhil and Saeid Mohammed Yimer

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:37

    Content type: Research article

    Published on:

  16. Hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face major workforce challenges while having to deal with extraordinary high burdens of disease. The effectiveness of human resource management (HRM) is therefore of parti...

    Authors: Philipos Petros Gile, Martina Buljac-Samardzic and Joris Van De Klundert

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:34

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  18. Work ability (WA) is an indication of how well someone’s health, skills and experience match current job demands. The aim of this study was to ascertain whether the work ability model can provide a useful expl...

    Authors: Jasmin Smyth, Sabrina Winona Pit and Vibeke Hansen

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:32

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  19. Most sub-Saharan African countries have too few reproductive health (RH) specialists, resulting in high RH-related mortality and morbidity. In Kenya, task sharing in RH began in 2002, with the training of clin...

    Authors: Marianne Corine Darwinkel, Julius Maina Nduru, Reuben Waswa Nabie and John Anzetse Aswani

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:31

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  20. The health organizations of today are highly complex and specialized. Given this scenario, there is a need for health professionals to work collaboratively within interprofessional work teams to ensure quality...

    Authors: Pilar Espinoza, Marina Peduzzi, Heloise F. Agreli and Melissa A. Sutherland

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:30

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  21. There is a strong need for expanding surgical workforce in low- and middle-income countries. However, the number of medical students selecting surgical careers is not sufficient to meet this need. In Rwanda, t...

    Authors: Grace Kansayisa, Sojung Yi, Yihan Lin and Ainhoa Costas-Chavarri

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:29

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  22. The economy of Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a major transformation which will have an impact on employment in the pharmacy sector. However, quantitative data characterizing the pharmacy workforce in th...

    Authors: Yazed AlRuthia, Mohammad A. Alsenaidy, Haitham K. Alrabiah, Abdullah AlMuhaisen and Mohammad Alshehri

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:28

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  23. The aim of this review was to examine the migration motives, the barriers to and facilitators of integration of international dental graduates, compared with nurses and doctors in the United Kingdom.

    Authors: Latha S. Davda, Jennifer E. Gallagher and David R. Radford

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:27

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  24. The uneven geographical distribution of physicians in Japan is a result of those physicians electing to work in certain locations. In order to understand this phenomenon, it is necessary to analyze the geograp...

    Authors: Hiroo Ide, Shunsuke Doi, Hidenao Atarashi, Shinsuke Fujita and Soichi Koike

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:26

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  25. In workforce planning for oral and maxillofacial surgeons in the Netherlands, it is important to plan timely, as these dental specialists are required to earn both medical and dental degrees. An important fact...

    Authors: Joost C. L. den Boer, Steven A. Zijderveld and Josef J. M. Bruers

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:25

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  26. Countries vary in the extent to which reforms have been implemented expanding nurses’ Scopes-of-Practice (SoP). There is limited cross-country research if and how reforms affect clinical practice, particularly...

    Authors: Claudia B. Maier, Julia Köppen and Reinhard Busse

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:24

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  27. There is a global health workforce shortage, which is considered critical in Nepal, a low-income country with a predominantly rural population. General practitioners (GPs) may play a key role improving access ...

    Authors: Bikash Gauchan, Stephen Mehanni, Pawan Agrawal, Mandeep Pathak and Santosh Dhungana

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:23

    Content type: Case study

    Published on:

  28. Community health workers (CHWs) are an important human resource in improving coverage of and success to interventions aimed at reducing malaria incidence. Evidence suggests that the performance of CHWs in mala...

    Authors: Helen Mwiinga Chipukuma, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Choolwe Jacobs, Gershom Chongwe, Mumbi Chola, Hikabasa Halwiindi, Jessy Zgambo and Charles Michelo

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:22

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  29. The internal migration of physicians from one place to another in the same country can unbalance the supply and distribution of these professionals in national health systems. In addition to economic, social a...

    Authors: Mario Cesar Scheffer, Alex Jones Flores Cassenote, Aline Gil Alves Guilloux and Mario Roberto Dal Poz

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:21

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  30. Documented evidence shows that task shifting has been practiced in Uganda to bridge the gaps in the health workers’ numbers since 1918. The objectives of this study were to provide a synthesis of the available...

    Authors: Sebastian Olikira Baine, Arabat Kasangaki and Euzobia Margaret Mugisha Baine

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:20

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  31. Participation of women in the medical profession over several countries worldwide was increased over the past decades. This paper is a part of ongoing studies aiming at addressing the issue of health workforce...

    Authors: Nazar A. Mohamed, Nadia Noor Abdulhadi, Abdullah A. Al-Maniri, Nahida R. Al-Lawati and Ahmed M. Al-Qasmi

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:19

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  33. In India, amidst the increasing number of health programmes, there are concerns about the performance of frontline health workers (FLHW). We assessed the time utilisation and factors affecting the work of fron...

    Authors: Samiksha Singh, Sanjeev Upadhyaya, Pradeep Deshmukh, Amol Dongre, Neha Dwivedi, Deepak Dey and Vijay Kumar

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:17

    Content type: Methodology

    Published on:

  35. Our overarching study objective is to further our understanding of the work psychology of Health Support Workers (HSWs) in long-term care and home and community care settings in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, ...

    Authors: Whitney Berta, Audrey Laporte, Tyrone Perreira, Liane Ginsburg, Adrian Rohit Dass, Raisa Deber, Andrea Baumann, Lisa Cranley, Ivy Bourgeault, Janet Lum, Brenda Gamble, Kathryn Pilkington, Vinita Haroun and Paula Neves

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:15

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  36. Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world’s largest health...

    Authors: Giuliano Russo, Inês Fronteira, Tiago Silva Jesus and James Buchan

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:14

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  37. While the demand for health services keep escalating at the grass roots or rural areas of China, a substantial portion of healthcare resources remain stagnant in the more developed cities and this has entrench...

    Authors: Xinglong Xu, Lulin Zhou, Henry Asante Antwi and Xi Chen

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:13

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  38. The Malian Nutrition Division of the Ministry of Health and Action Against Hunger tested the feasibility of integrating treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) into the existing Integrated Community Case ...

    Authors: Eleanor Rogers, Karen Martínez, Jose Luis Alvarez Morán, Franck G. B. Alé, Pilar Charle, Saul Guerrero and Chloe Puett

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:12

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  39. While evidence supports community health worker (CHW) capacity to improve maternal and newborn health in less-resourced countries, key implementation gaps remain. Tools for assessing CHW performance and eviden...

    Authors: Teralynn Ludwick, Eleanor Turyakira, Teddy Kyomuhangi, Kimberly Manalili, Sheila Robinson and Jennifer L. Brenner

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:11

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  40. The intention to leave a job, known as turnover intention, among primary care doctors has a significant impact on primary health care service delivery. We investigated primary care doctors’ turnover intention ...

    Authors: Tong Wen, Yan Zhang, Xue Wang and Guo Tang

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:10

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  41. Antimicrobial resistance is an important global issue facing society. Healthcare workers need to be engaged in solving this problem, as advocates for rational antimicrobial use, stewards of sustainable effecti...

    Authors: Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Sara L. Jones and Steven J. Hoffman

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:9

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  42. A key strategy for increasing the supply of rural doctors is rurally located medical education. In 2000, Australia introduced a national policy to increase rural immersion for undergraduate medical students. T...

    Authors: Belinda G. O’Sullivan, Matthew R. McGrail, Deborah Russell, Helen Chambers and Laura Major

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:8

    Content type: Review

    Published on:

  43. Most developing countries face important challenges regarding the quality of health care, and there is a growing consensus that health workers play a key role in this process. Our understanding as to what are ...

    Authors: Pieter Serneels and Tomas Lievens

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:7

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  45. The High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth released its report to the United Nations Secretary-General in September 2016. It makes important recommendations that are based on estimates ...

    Authors: Richard M. Scheffler, James Campbell, Giorgio Cometto, Akiko Maeda, Jenny Liu, Tim A. Bruckner, Daniel R. Arnold and Tim Evans

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:5

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  46. Côte d’Ivoire continues to struggle with one of the highest rates of mother-to-child HIV transmission in West Africa, previously thought to be in part due to suboptimal workforce patterns. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Brianne H. Rowan, Julia Robinson, Adam Granato, Claire Konan Bla, Seydou Kouyaté, Guy Vincent Djety, Kouamé Abo, Ahoua Koné and Stephen Gloyd

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:4

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  49. This study aims to describe the distribution of the hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil.

    Authors: Thiago R. Santos, Jonathan Penm, André O. Baldoni, Lorena Rocha Ayres, Rebekah Moles and Cristina Sanches

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2018 16:1

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

  50. Limitations in healthcare worker (HCW) capacity compound the burden of dual TB and HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. To fill gaps in knowledge and skills, effective continuing profession development (CPD) i...

    Authors: Caryl Feldacker, Sheena Jacob, Michael H. Chung, Anya Nartker and H. Nina Kim

    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2017 15:89

    Content type: Research

    Published on:

Submit manuscript

Follow

  • ISSN: 1478-4491 (electronic)

Human Resources for Health

ISSN: 1478-4491