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  1. Despite an increase in efforts to address shortage and performance of Human Resources for Health (HRH), HRH problems continue to hamper quality service delivery. We believe that the influence of governance is ...

    Authors: Marjolein Dieleman and Thea Hilhorst
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:29
  2. With 15-30% met need for comprehensive emergency obstetrical care (CEmOC) and a 3% caesarean section rate, Tanzania needs to expand the number of facilities providing these services in more remote areas. Consi...

    Authors: Angelo S Nyamtema, Senga K Pemba, Godfrey Mbaruku, Fulgence D Rutasha and Jos van Roosmalen
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:28
  3. Over thirty years have passed since the Alma-Ata Declaration on primary health care in 1978. Many governments in the first decade following the declaration responded by developing national programmes of commun...

    Authors: Jason B Christopher, Alex Le May, Simon Lewin and David A Ross
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:27
  4. One of the components of the Health Observatory for Latin American and the Caribbean (HO-LAC) is the design and implementation of metrics for human resources for health. Under the HO-LAC initiative, researcher...

    Authors: Gustavo G Nigenda Jr, Maria H Machado, Fernando F Ruiz, Victor V Carrasco, Patricia P Moliné and Sabado S Girardi
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:24
  5. There is a growing interest in using pay-for-performance mechanisms in low and middle-income countries in order to improve the performance of health care providers. However, at present there is a dearth of ind...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Tehzeeb Zulfiqur, Sarah Javeed, Amanullah Khan and Abdul Bari
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:23
  6. Community participation in vector control and health services in general is of great interest to public health practitioners in developing countries, but remains complex and poorly understood. The Urban Malari...

    Authors: Prosper P Chaki, Stefan Dongus, Ulrike Fillinger, Ann Kelly and Gerry F Killeen
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:21
  7. Motivation and retention of health workers, particularly in rural areas, is a question of considerable interest to policy-makers internationally. Many countries, including Vietnam, are debating the right mix o...

    Authors: Sophie Witter, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Bakhuti Shengalia and Marko Vujicic
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:20
  8. Workplace violence has been documented in all sectors, but female-dominated sectors such as health and social services are at particular risk. In 2007-2008, IntraHealth International assisted the Rwanda Minist...

    Authors: Constance J Newman, Daniel H de Vries, Jeanne d'Arc Kanakuze and Gerard Ngendahimana
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:19
  9. There is increasing attention, globally and in countries, to monitoring and addressing the health systems and human resources inputs, processes and outputs that impede or facilitate progress towards achieving ...

    Authors: Neeru Gupta, Blerta Maliqi, Adson França, Frank Nyonator, Muhammad A Pate, David Sanders, Hedia Belhadj and Bernadette Daelmans
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:16
  10. Starting in the late 1980s, the Japanese government decreased the number of students accepted into medical school each year in order to reduce healthcare spending. The result of this policy is a serious shorta...

    Authors: Hideaki Takata, Hiroshi Nagata, Hiroki Nogawa and Hiroshi Tanaka
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:14
  11. The ability of many countries to achieve national health goals such as the Millennium Development Goals remains hindered by inadequate and poorly distributed health personnel, including doctors. The distributi...

    Authors: Rachel C Snow, Kwesi Asabir, Massy Mutumba, Elizabeth Koomson, Kofi Gyan, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Margaret Kruk and Janet Kwansah
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:13
  12. Following twenty years of economic and social growth, Liberia's fourteen-year civil war destroyed its health system, with most of the health workforce leaving the country. Following the inauguration of the Sir...

    Authors: S Tornorlah Varpilah, Meredith Safer, Erica Frenkel, Duza Baba, Moses Massaquoi and Genevieve Barrow
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:11
  13. Responsible governance is crucial to national development and a catalyst for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. To date, governance seems to have been a neglected issue in the field of human resources...

    Authors: Marjolein Dieleman, Daniel MP Shaw and Prisca Zwanikken
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:10
  14. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the professional expectations of medical students during the 2007-2008 academic year at the public medical schools of Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, ...

    Authors: Paulo Ferrinho, Mohsin Sidat, Mário Jorge Fresta, Amabélia Rodrigues, Inês Fronteira, Florinda da Silva, Hugo Mercer, Jorge Cabral and Gilles Dussault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:9
  15. Increasing the availability of health workers in remote and rural areas through improved health workforce recruitment and retention is crucial to population health. However, information about the costs of such...

    Authors: Pascal Zurn, Marko Vujicic, Christophe Lemière, Maud Juquois, Laura Stormont, Jim Campbell, Martine Rutten and Jean-Marc Braichet
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:8
  16. Physicians leaving and reentering clinical practice can have significant medical workforce implications. We surveyed inactive physicians younger than typical retirement age to determine their reasons for clini...

    Authors: Ethan A Jewett, Sarah E Brotherton and Holly Ruch-Ross
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:7
  17. There is continuing discussion in Indonesia about the need for improved information on human resources for health at the district level where programs are actually delivered. This is particularly the case afte...

    Authors: Peter Heywood, Nida P Harahap and Siska Aryani
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:5
  18. Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health (HRH) in the formal and informal sectors in Ba...

    Authors: Syed Masud Ahmed, Md Awlad Hossain, Ahmed Mushtaque RajaChowdhury and Abbas Uddin Bhuiya
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:3
  19. Health workforce needs-based shortages and skill mix imbalances are significant health workforce challenges. Task shifting, defined as delegating tasks to existing or new cadres with either less training or na...

    Authors: Brent D Fulton, Richard M Scheffler, Susan P Sparkes, Erica Yoonkyung Auh, Marko Vujicic and Agnes Soucat
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2011 9:1
  20. Tanzania, like many developing countries, faces a crisis in human resources for health. The government has looked for ways to increase the number and skills of health workers, including using distance learning...

    Authors: Anya J Nartker, Liz Stevens, Alyson Shumays, Martin Kalowela, Daniel Kisimbo and Katy Potter
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:30
  21. This paper examines the issue of workforce stability and turnover in the context of policy attempts to improve retention of health workers. The paper argues that there are significant benefits to supporting po...

    Authors: James Buchan
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:29
  22. Planning human resources for health (HRH) is a complex process for policy-makers and, as a result, many countries worldwide swing from surplus to shortage. In-depth case studies can help appraising the challen...

    Authors: Sabine Stordeur and Christian Léonard
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:28
  23. Ensuring health worker job satisfaction and motivation are important if health workers are to be retained and effectively deliver health services in many developing countries, whether they work in the public o...

    Authors: David H Peters, Subrata Chakraborty, Prasanta Mahapatra and Laura Steinhardt
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:27
  24. The objective of this study was to investigate how medical and nursing staff of the Nicosia General Hospital is affected by specific motivation factors, and the association between job satisfaction and motivation

    Authors: Persefoni Lambrou, Nick Kontodimopoulos and Dimitris Niakas
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:26
  25. Many resource-constrained countries now train non-physician clinicians in HIV/AIDS care, a strategy known as 'task-shifting.' There is as yet no evidence-based international standard for training these cadres....

    Authors: Paula E Brentlinger, Américo Assan, Florindo Mudender, Annette E Ghee, José Vallejo Torres, Pilar Martínez Martínez, Oliver Bacon, Rui Bastos, Rolanda Manuel, Lucy Ramirez Li, Catherine McKinney and Lisa J Nelson
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:23
  26. The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Zambia is operating with fewer than half of the human resources for health (HRH) necessary to meet basic population health needs. Responding urgently to address this HRH crisis,...

    Authors: Aaron Tjoa, Margaret Kapihya, Miriam Libetwa, Joanne Lee, Charmaine Pattinson, Elizabeth McCarthy and Kate Schroder
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:22
  27. This paper compares the socioeconomic profile of medical students registered at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (FM-UEM), Maputo, for the years 1998/99 and 2007/08.

    Authors: Paulo Ferrinho, Inês Fronteira, Mohsin Sidat, Fernando da Sousa Jr and Gilles Dussault
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:21
  28. Follow-up studies of former students are an efficient way to organize the entire process of professional training and curriculum evaluation. The aim of this study was to identify professional profile subgroups...

    Authors: Maria F Nunes, Erica T Silva, Laura B Santos, Maria G Queiroz and Cláudio R Leles
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:20
  29. Shortages of health workers are obstacles to utilising global health initiative (GHI) funds effectively in Africa. This paper reports and analyses two countries' health workforce responses during a period of l...

    Authors: Ruairí Brugha, John Kadzandira, Joseph Simbaya, Patrick Dicker, Victor Mwapasa and Aisling Walsh
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:19
  30. The current shortage of human resources for health threatens the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. There is currently limited published evidence of health-related training programmes in Africa th...

    Authors: David Mukanga, Olivia Namusisi, Sheba N Gitta, George Pariyo, Mufuta Tshimanga, Angela Weaver and Murray Trostle
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:18
  31. Capacity-building programs are vital for healthcare workforce development in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to increasing human capital, participation in such programs may lead to new profession...

    Authors: Shoba Ramanadhan, Sosena Kebede, Jeannie Mantopoulos and Elizabeth H Bradley
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:17
  32. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of burnout in Greek medical residents, investigate its relationship with training satisfaction during residency and survey Greek medical residents' opinion ...

    Authors: Pavlos Msaouel, Nikolaos C Keramaris, Athanasios Tasoulis, Dimitrios Kolokythas, Nikolaos Syrmos, Nikolaos Pararas, Eleftherios Thireos and Christos Lionis
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:16
  33. The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Zambia is currently operating with fewer than half of the health workers required to deliver basic health services. The MOH has developed a human resources for health (HRH) stra...

    Authors: Aaron Tjoa, Margaret Kapihya, Miriam Libetwa, Kate Schroder, Callie Scott, Joanne Lee and Elizabeth McCarthy
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:15
  34. In the context of the current human resources for health (HRH) crisis, the need for comprehensive Human Resources Development Plans (HRDP) is acute, especially in resource-scarce sub-Saharan African countries....

    Authors: Amanda K Tyrrell, Giuliano Russo, Gilles Dussault and Paulo Ferrinho
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:14
  35. Well-trained and highly motivated community health workers (CHWs) are critical for delivery of many community-based newborn care interventions. High rates of CHW attrition undermine programme effectiveness and...

    Authors: Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Nabeel Ashraf Ali, Larissa Jennings, M Habibur R Seraji, Ishtiaq Mannan, Rasheduzzaman Shah, Arif Billah Al-Mahmud, Sanwarul Bari, Daniel Hossain, Milan Krishna Das, Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen and Peter J Winch
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2010 8:12