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  1. Global chronic health worker shortages and stagnating routine immunization rates require new strategies to increase vaccination coverage and equity. As trained, trusted members of their local communities, comm...

    Authors: Rebecca Alban, Emily Gibson, Jenny Payne and Tafwirapo Chihana
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:42
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  2. Development partners and global health initiatives are important actors in financing health systems in many countries. Despite the importance of the health workforce to the attainment of global health targets,...

    Authors: Andrea Nove, Onyema Ajuebor, Khassoum Diallo, James Campbell and Giorgio Cometto
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:41
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Doctors and nurses play a fundamental role in maintaining global health systems and achieving universal health care coverage. However, significant shortages persist, and little is known about the popularity of...

    Authors: Luyang Guo and Kit-Tai Hau
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Health worker (HW) retention in the public health sector in Uganda is an enduring health system constraint. Although previous studies have examined the retention of in-service HWs, there is little research foc...

    Authors: Henry Zakumumpa, Joseph Rujumba, Marjorie Kyomuhendo, llyse Stempler and Woldekidan Amde
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:38
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  6. This commentary brings together theory, evidence and lessons from 15 years of gender and HRH analyses conducted in health systems in six WHO regions to address selected data-related aspects of WHO’s 2016 Globa...

    Authors: Constance Newman, Alice Nayebare, Ndeye Mingue Ndiate Ndiaye Gacko, Patrick Okello, Abdou Gueye, Sujata Bijou, Selly Ba, Sokhna Gaye, N’deye Coumba, Babacar Gueye, Yankouba Dial and Maimouna N’doye
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:37
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  7. This paper responds to Asante et al. (in Hum Resour Health, 2014), providing an updated picture of the impacts of Cuban medical training in the Pacific region based on research carried out in 2019–2021, which ...

    Authors: Sharon McLennan and Cristine Werle
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Ethiopia has been providing health care to its rural population since 2004 using female Community Health Workers called Health Extension Workers (HEWs). The HEWs are credited with several achievements in impro...

    Authors: Yohannes Ejigu, Netsanet Abera, Werissaw Haileselassie, Negalign Berhanu, Biniyam Tadesse Haile, Frehiwot Nigatu, Nurhan Tewfik, Yibeltal Kiflie, Girmay Medhin, Fasil Walelign, Mekdes Demissie, Setegn Tigabu, Daniel Taddesse, Tegene Legese Dadi and Alula Teklu
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:35
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  9. Safe and timely anesthesia services are an integral component of modern health care systems. There are, however, increasing concerns about the availability of anesthesia services in Canada. Thus, a comprehensi...

    Authors: Sarah Simkin, Beverley A. Orser, C. Ruth Wilson and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:34
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  10. Overall, resilient health systems build upon sufficient, qualified, well-distributed, and motivated health workers; however, this precious resource is limited in numbers to meet people’s demands, particularly ...

    Authors: Quinhas Fernandes, Orvalho Augusto, Helena Machai, James Pfeiffer, Marco Carone, Norton Pinto, Naziat Carimo, Isaías Ramiro, Stephen Gloyd and Kenneth Sherr
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. The crisis in human resources for health is observed worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Many studies have demonstrated the importance of human resources for health as a major pillar for the proper ...

    Authors: Charles Ruhangaza Mushagalusa, Daniel Garhalangwanamuntu Mayeri, Bertin Kasongo, Aimé Cikomola, Sammuel Lwamushi Makali, Amani Ngaboyeka, Lili Chishagala, Albert Mwembo, Abdon Mukalay and Ghislain Balaluka Bisimwa
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:32
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Inadequate distribution of the medical workforce in rural regions remains a key global challenge. Evidence of the importance of postgraduation (after medical school) rural immersion time and subsequent rural p...

    Authors: Matthew R. McGrail, Tiana Gurney, Jordan Fox, Priya Martin, Diann Eley, Bushra Nasir and Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:31
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  13. Health systems worldwide are faced with the challenge of adequately staffing their hospital services. Much of the current research and subsequent policy has been focusing on nurse staffing and minimum ratios t...

    Authors: Chiara Dall’Ora, Bruna Rubbo, Christina Saville, Lesley Turner, Jane Ball, Cheska Ball and Peter Griffiths
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:30
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. The technical advisory group of the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) has suggested person-centered and community-based mental health services in response to the long-term and far-reaching mental...

    Authors: Fauziah Rabbani, Samina Akhtar, Javeria Nafis, Shahid Khan, Sameen Siddiqi and Zul Merali
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:29
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  15. Critical care pharmacists improve the quality and efficiency of medication therapy whilst reducing treatment costs where they are available. UK critical care pharmacist deployment was described in 2015, highli...

    Authors: Mark Borthwick, Greg Barton, Christopher P. Ioannides, Ruth Forrest, Emma Graham-Clarke, Fraser Hanks, Christie James, David Kean, David Sapsford, Alan Timmins, Mark Tomlin, John Warburton and Richard S. Bourne
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:28
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  16. The unavailability of human and material resources can affect access to eye health services, constituting an obstacle in the fight against avoidable visual impairment. This study aimed to assess the availabili...

    Authors: Dulnério Barbosa Sengo, Zubair Momade Abudo Salamo, Isaura Ilorena d’Alva Brito dos Santos, Laura Mavota Mate, Sancho Manuel Chivinde, Raul Moragues, Pablo Caballero Pérez and Inmaculada López-Izquierdo
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. The increasing physical violence against doctors in the health sector has become an alarming global problem and a key concern for the health system in Bangladesh. This study aimed to determine the prevalence a...

    Authors: Md. Shahjalal, Mohammad Morshad Alam, Md. Nafiul Alam Khan, Arifa Sultana, Sanjana Zaman, Ahmed Hossain and Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:26
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  18. Although Saudi Arabia is a common destination to which nurses and doctors migrate, few studies have explored the pull factors attracting them to work in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. This qualitative study...

    Authors: Husam Almansour, Ameera Aldossary, Sandra Holmes and Thamer Alderaan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. In the quest to ensure that quality healthcare is provided to all citizens through building healthcare worker capacity and extending reach for expert services, Zambia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) in collaboratio...

    Authors: Brian Mubanga, Sombo Fwoloshi, Lastina Lwatula, Nomsa Siamwanza, Khozya Zyambo, Henry Sichinga, Hannah Tappis, Lloyd B. Mulenga, Aurthur Moonga, Lunga Ziko, Faith Simushi, Harry Madimba Massamba, Given Hapunda, Francis Sichimba, Hellen Mtonga and Maybin Kalubula
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:24
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  20. Health practitioner regulators throughout the world use continuing professional development (CPD) standards to ensure that registrants maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge, expertise and competence. A...

    Authors: Penelope Ann Elizabeth Main and Sarah Anderson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. The COVID-19 pandemic led to worldwide health service disruptions, due mainly to insufficient staff availability. To gain insight into policy responses and engage with policy-makers, the World Health Organizat...

    Authors: Juana Paola Bustamante Izquierdo, E. Benjamín Puertas, Diana Hernández Hernández and Hernán Sepúlveda
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Rural pipeline approach has recently gain prominent recognition in improving the availability of health workers in hard-to-reach areas such as rural and poor regions. Understanding implications for its success...

    Authors: Delphin Kolié, Remco Van De Pas, Laurence Codjia and Pascal Zurn
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  24. Missed nursing care undermines nursing standards of care and minimising this phenomenon is crucial to maintaining adequate patient safety and the quality of patient care. The concept is a neglected aspect of h...

    Authors: Abdulazeez Imam, Sopuruchukwu Obiesie, David Gathara, Jalemba Aluvaala, Michuki Maina and Mike English
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:19
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. COVID-19 has created unprecedented challenges for health systems worldwide. Since the confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in Ghana in March 2020 Ghanian health workers have reported fear, stress, and low p...

    Authors: Roxana Salehi, Stephanie de Young, Augustine Asamoah, Sawdah Esaka Aryee, Raymond Eli, Barbara Couper, Brian Smith, Charity Djokoto, Yaa Nyarko Agyeman, Abdul-Fatawu Suglo Zakaria, Nancy Butt, Amma Boadu, Felix Nyante, Gifty Merdiemah, Joseph Oliver-Commey, Lawrence Ofori-Boadu…
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:18
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  26. COVID-19 has reinforced the importance of having a sufficient, well-distributed and competent health workforce. In addition to improving health outcomes, increased investment in health has the potential to gen...

    Authors: Anup Karan, Himanshu Negandhi, Mehnaz Kabeer, Tomas Zapata, Dilip Mairembam, Hilde De Graeve, James Buchan and Sanjay Zodpey
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:17
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  27. This study aims to describe the training offered and the availability of professionals required by the Ministry of Health for mental health problems management in the community.

    Authors: Jackeline García-Serna, Guillermo Almeida-Huanca, Jeff Huarcaya-Victoria, Ana Lucia Vilela-Estrada, Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka and David Villarreal-Zegarra
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:16
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  28. Mother–infant care (MIC) helpers have become an indispensable part in hospital services. In order to stabilize the MIC workforce, it is essential for administrators to have a solid understanding of what may in...

    Authors: Qingge Li, Yacen Li, Ying Jin and Suwen Feng
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Health practitioner regulators throughout the world use registration standards to define the requirements health practitioners need to meet for registration. These standards commonly include recency of practic...

    Authors: Penelope Ann Elizabeth Main and Sarah Anderson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:14
    Content type: Review Published on:

  30. This systematic review and meta-analysis identified early evidence quantifying the disruption to the education of health workers by the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuing policy responses and their outcomes.

    Authors: Aikaterini Dedeilia, Michail Papapanou, Andreas N. Papadopoulos, Nina-Rafailia Karela, Anastasia Androutsou, Dimitra Mitsopoulou, Melina Nikolakea, Christos Konstantinidis, Manthia Papageorgakopoulou, Michail Sideris, Elizabeth O. Johnson, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Cometto, Jim Campbell and Marinos G. Sotiropoulos
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. Much has been written about the state and persistent lack of progress regarding gender equity and the commonly referenced phenomenon of a ‘leaking pipeline’. This framing focuses attention on the symptom of wo...

    Authors: L. Desveaux, J. Pirmohamed, N. Hussain-Shamsy and C. Steele Gray
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:12
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. Many high-income countries are heavily dependent on internationally trained doctors to staff their healthcare workforce. Over one-third of doctors practising in the UK received their primary medical qualificat...

    Authors: N. Brennan, N. Langdon, M. Bryce, L. Burns, N. Humphries, A. Knapton and T. Gale
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. The reorganization of healthcare systems to face the COVID-19 pandemic has led to concerns regarding psychological distress of healthcare workers, and training requirements of physician residents.

    Authors: Mário Luciano de Mélo Silva Júnior, Arthur Violante Sapia, Jonas Marques Cavalcanti Neto, Nathallya Maria Gomes Barbosa, Victória Beatriz Costa Neiva and Euler Nicolau Sauaia Filho
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. The increased need for mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) services during the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need to better understand workforce capacity. This study aimed to examine the pandemi...

    Authors: Christine Tulk, Mary Bartram, Kathleen Leslie, Jelena Atanackovic, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:9
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  35. Workplace violence (WPV) is considered a global problem, particularly in the health sector; however, no studies have assessed the national prevalence of WPV against emergency physicians and the associated fact...

    Authors: Shijiao Yan, Jing Feng, Yong Gan, Rixing Wang, Xingyue Song, Zhiqian Luo, Xiaotong Han and Chuanzhu Lv
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:8
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  36. Expanding the health workforce to increase the availability of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) presents an opportunity to expand the power and well-being of frontline health workers. The role of the SBA holds ...

    Authors: Dora Curry, Md. Ahsanul Islam, Bidhan Krishna Sarker, Anne Laterra and Ikhtiar Khandaker
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:7
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  37. Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) knowledge of multi-stranded cholera interventions (including case management, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), surveillance/laboratory methods, coordination, and vaccination) i...

    Authors: Kelly Elimian, Carina King, Ozius Dewa, Emmanuel Pembi, Benjamin Gandi, Sebastian Yennan, Puja Myles, Catherine Pritchard, Birger Carl Forsberg and Tobias Alfvén
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:6
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  40. Family doctors in rural China are the main force for primary health care, but the workforce has not been well stabilized in recent years. Surface acting is an emotional labor strategy with a disparity between ...

    Authors: Anqi Wang, Changhai Tang, Lifang Zhou, Haiyuan Lv, Jia Song, Zhongming Chen and Wenqiang Yin
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. The increasing complexity of the migration pathways of health and care workers is a critical consideration in the reporting requirements of international agreements designed to address their impacts. There are...

    Authors: Ivy L. Bourgeault, Denise L. Spitzer and Margaret Walton-Roberts
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:2
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  43. The “Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030” was adopted by the 69th World Health Assembly. Among its objectives is the strengthening of data on human resources for health, to inform evi...

    Authors: Osahon Enabulele and Joan Emien Enabulele
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:88
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. A well-functioning health system delivers quality services to all people when and where they need them. To help navigate the complex realm of patient care, it is essential that health care professions have a t...

    Authors: Desmond Wiggins, Aron Downie, Roger M. Engel and Benjamin T. Brown
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:87
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  45. Peru has some of the worst outcomes worldwide as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; it is presumed that this has also affected healthcare workers. This study aimed to establish whether occupation and other n...

    Authors: Willy Ramos, Nadia Guerrero, Edwin Omar Napanga-Saldaña, José Medina, Manuel Loayza, Jhony A. De La Cruz-Vargas, María Vargas, Luis Ordóñez, Yovanna Seclén-Ubillús, Carlos Álvarez-Antonio and Juan Arrasco
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:86
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  46. Adequate Human Resources for Health is indispensable to achieving Universal Health Coverage and physicians play a leading role. Nigeria with low physician–population ratio, is experiencing massive exodus of ph...

    Authors: Cosmas Kenan Onah, Benedict Ndubueze Azuogu, Casmir Ndubuisi Ochie, Christian Obasi Akpa, Kingsley Chijioke Okeke, Anthony Okoafor Okpunwa, Hassan Muhammad Bello and George Onyemaechi Ugwu
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:85
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  47. Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers is a common occurrence worldwide, especially among young physicians and medical residents. This study aimed to explore the negative health impacts of WPV amo...

    Authors: Safaa M. El-Zoghby, Maha E. Ibrahim, Nancy M. Zaghloul, Shaimaa A. Shehata and Rasha M. Farghaly
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:84
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  48. Discrimination against hospital staff based on ascribed features is prevalent in healthcare systems worldwide. Detrimental effects on health and quality of patient care have been shown. Our study aims to descr...

    Authors: Arda Yolci, Liane Schenk, Pia-Theresa Sonntag, Lisa Peppler, Meryam Schouler-Ocak and Anna Schneider
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:83
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid shift to remote consultations. United Kingdom (UK) NHS Allied Health Professional (AHP) services may have been unprepared for telehealth implementation. This study explored...

    Authors: Enza Leone, Nicola Eddison, Aoife Healy, Carolyn Royse and Nachiappan Chockalingam
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:82
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  50. A regional Australian Primary Health Network (PHN) has been subsidising administrative staff from local general practices to undertake the Medical Practice Assisting (MPA) course as part of its MPA Program. Th...

    Authors: Shanthi Ann Ramanathan, Rod Ling, Alison Tattersall, Nicola Ingold, Mary Sheffi De Silva, Shara Close and Andrew Searles
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2022 20:81
    Content type: Research Published on:
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