Issue 1/2018
Content (69 Articles)
Hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil
Thiago R. Santos, Jonathan Penm, André O. Baldoni, Lorena Rocha Ayres, Rebekah Moles, Cristina Sanches
Improving local health through community health workers in Cambodia: challenges and solutions
Kim Ozano, Padam Simkhada, Khem Thann, Rose Khatri
An analysis of the global pharmacy workforce capacity trends from 2006 to 2012
Ian Bates, Christopher John, Priyanka Seegobin, Andreia Bruno
Workforce patterns in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Côte d’Ivoire: a qualitative model
Brianne H. Rowan, Julia Robinson, Adam Granato, Claire Konan Bla, Seydou Kouyaté, Guy Vincent Djety, Kouamé Abo, Ahoua Koné, Stephen Gloyd
Forecasting imbalances in the global health labor market and devising policy responses
Richard M. Scheffler, James Campbell, Giorgio Cometto, Akiko Maeda, Jenny Liu, Tim A. Bruckner, Daniel R. Arnold, Tim Evans
The effects of workplace respect and violence on nurses’ job satisfaction in Ghana: a cross-sectional survey
Isaac Mensah Boafo
Microeconomic institutions and personnel economics for health care delivery: a formal exploration of what matters to health workers in Rwanda
Pieter Serneels, Tomas Lievens
A review of characteristics and outcomes of Australia’s undergraduate medical education rural immersion programs
Belinda G. O’Sullivan, Matthew R. McGrail, Deborah Russell, Helen Chambers, Laura Major
Mapping educational opportunities for healthcare workers on antimicrobial resistance and stewardship around the world
Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Sara L. Jones, Steven J. Hoffman
Factors influencing turnover intention among primary care doctors: a cross-sectional study in Chongqing, China
Tong Wen, Yan Zhang, Xue Wang, Guo Tang
Supportive supervision and constructive relationships with healthcare workers support CHW performance: Use of a qualitative framework to evaluate CHW programming in Uganda
Teralynn Ludwick, Eleanor Turyakira, Teddy Kyomuhangi, Kimberly Manalili, Sheila Robinson, Jennifer L. Brenner
Cost-effectiveness of the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition by community health workers compared to treatment provided at an outpatient facility in rural Mali
Eleanor Rogers, Karen Martínez, Jose Luis Alvarez Morán, Franck G. B. Alé, Pilar Charle, Saul Guerrero, Chloe Puett
Evaluation of health resource utilization efficiency in community health centers of Jiangsu Province, China
Xinglong Xu, Lulin Zhou, Henry Asante Antwi, Xi Chen
Understanding nurses’ dual practice: a scoping review of what we know and what we still need to ask on nurses holding multiple jobs
Giuliano Russo, Inês Fronteira, Tiago Silva Jesus, James Buchan
Relationships between work outcomes, work attitudes and work environments of health support workers in Ontario long-term care and home and community care settings
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, Paula Neves
A survey of pharmacists’ perception of foundation level competencies in African countries
Arit Udoh, Andreia Bruno, Ian Bates
Time motion study using mixed methods to assess service delivery by frontline health workers from South India: methods
Samiksha Singh, Sanjeev Upadhyaya, Pradeep Deshmukh, Amol Dongre, Neha Dwivedi, Deepak Dey, Vijay Kumar
The trend and features of physician workforce supply in China: after national medical licensing system reform
Chengxiang Tang, Daisheng Tang
The trend of feminization of doctors’ workforce in Oman: is it a phenomenon that could rouse the health system?
Nazar A. Mohamed, Nadia Noor Abdulhadi, Abdullah A. Al-Maniri, Nahida R. Al-Lawati, Ahmed M. Al-Qasmi
Task shifting in health service delivery from a decision and policy makers’ perspective: a case of Uganda
Sebastian Olikira Baine, Arabat Kasangaki, Euzobia Margaret Mugisha Baine
Internal migration of physicians who graduated in Brazil between 1980 and 2014
Mario Cesar Scheffer, Alex Jones Flores Cassenote, Aline Gil Alves Guilloux, Mario Roberto Dal Poz
Towards a framework for analyzing determinants of performance of community health workers in malaria prevention and control: a systematic review
Helen Mwiinga Chipukuma, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Choolwe Jacobs, Gershom Chongwe, Mumbi Chola, Hikabasa Halwiindi, Jessy Zgambo, Charles Michelo
Role of the general practitioner in improving rural healthcare access: a case from Nepal
Bikash Gauchan, Stephen Mehanni, Pawan Agrawal, Mandeep Pathak, Santosh Dhungana
Task shifting between physicians and nurses in acute care hospitals: cross-sectional study in nine countries
Claudia B. Maier, Julia Köppen, Reinhard Busse, Christine Bond, Robert Elliott, Hanne Bruhn, Debbie Mclaggan, Daryll Archibald, Mandy Ryan, Diane Skatun, Sebastian Heidenreich, Frantisek Vlcek, Marie Zvonickova, Daniel Hodyc, Hana Svobodová, Matthew Sutton, Jonathan Gibson, Anne McBride, James McDonald, Steve Birch, Britta Zander, Juliane Stahl, Silvia Coretti, Paola Codella, Matteo Ruggeri, Job van Exel, Antoinette de Bont, Marianne Luyendjk, Iris Wallenburg, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Maarten Janssen, Mathijs Kelder, Maureen Rutten-van Molken, Jan Erik Askildsen, Muhammad Kamrul Islam, Jon Opsahl, Linda Ostergren, Nina Berven, Kjell Haug, Bjarte Folkestad, Kari Ludvigsen, Bodil Ravneberg, Alicja Sobczak, Grazyna Dykowska, Malgorzata Winter, Sabina Ostrowska, Michal Mijal, Sinem Erincç, Seda Basihos, Meryem Dogan, Güldem Ökem
Preferred and actual retirement age of oral and maxillofacial surgeons aged 55 and older in the Netherlands: a longitudinal study from 2003 to 2016
Joost C. L. den Boer, Steven A. Zijderveld, Josef J. M. Bruers
The distance and chance of lifetime geographical movement of physicians in Japan: an analysis using the age-period-cohort model
Hiroo Ide, Shunsuke Doi, Hidenao Atarashi, Shinsuke Fujita, Soichi Koike
Migration motives and integration of international human resources of health in the United Kingdom: systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies using framework analysis
Latha S. Davda, Jennifer E. Gallagher, David R. Radford
The status of licensed pharmacy workforce in Saudi Arabia: a 2030 economic vision perspective
Yazed AlRuthia, Mohammad A. Alsenaidy, Haitham K. Alrabiah, Abdullah AlMuhaisen, Mohammad Alshehri
Gender-based analysis of factors affecting junior medical students’ career selection: addressing the shortage of surgical workforce in Rwanda
Grace Kansayisa, Sojung Yi, Yihan Lin, Ainhoa Costas-Chavarri
Interprofessional team member’s satisfaction: a mixed methods study of a Chilean hospital
Pilar Espinoza, Marina Peduzzi, Heloise F. Agreli, Melissa A. Sutherland
Evaluating the role of clinical officers in providing reproductive health services in Kenya
Marianne Corine Darwinkel, Julius Maina Nduru, Reuben Waswa Nabie, John Anzetse Aswani
Can the work ability model provide a useful explanatory framework to understand sustainable employability amongst general practitioners: a qualitative study
Jasmin Smyth, Sabrina Winona Pit, Vibeke Hansen
Gender differences in the measurement of pharmacists’ job satisfaction
Manuel J. Carvajal, Ioana Popovici, Patrick C. Hardigan
The effect of human resource management on performance in hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review
Philipos Petros Gile, Martina Buljac-Samardzic, Joris Van De Klundert
Advancing the science behind human resources for health: highlights from the Health Policy and Systems Research Reader on Human Resources for Health
A.S. George, J. Campbell, A. Ghaffar, Seye Abimbola, Raeda AbuAlRub, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Marjolein Dieleman, Aku Kwamie, Veloshnee Govender, Luis Huicho, Uta Lehmann, Tim Martineau, Ligia Paina, N. S. Prashanth, Timothy Roberton, Krishna D. Rao, Kerry Scott, Veena Sriram, Stephanie Topp, Sophie Witter
Willingness to migrate—a potential effect of burnout? A survey of Hungarian physicians
Zsuzsa Győrffy, Diana Dweik, Edmond Girasek
‘We are planning to leave, all of us’—a realist study of mechanisms explaining healthcare employee turnover in rural Ethiopia
Joris van de Klundert, Judith van Dongen- van den Broek, Ebrahim Mohammed Yesuf, Jasmijn Vreugdenhil, Saeid Mohammed Yimer
Funding models and medical dominance in interdisciplinary primary care teams: qualitative evidence from three Canadian provinces
Wiesława Dominika Wranik, Susan Marie Haydt
What do we know about community-based health worker programs? A systematic review of existing reviews on community health workers
Kerry Scott, S. W. Beckham, Margaret Gross, George Pariyo, Krishna D Rao, Giorgio Cometto, Henry B. Perry
China’s private institutions for the education of health professionals: a time-series analysis from 1998 to 2012
Jianlin Hou, Zhifeng Wang, Youhui Luo, Joseph C. Kolars, Qingyue Meng
Reflecting strategic and conforming gendered experiences of community health workers using photovoice in rural Wakiso district, Uganda
David Musoke, Charles Ssemugabo, Rawlance Ndejjo, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Asha S. George
The design of an estimation norm to assess nurses required for educational and non-educational hospitals using workload indicators of staffing need in Iran
Ali Vafaee-Najar, Mohammadreza Amiresmaeili, Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee
Factors associated with retention intentions among Isibindi child and youth care workers in South Africa: results from a national survey
Tonya R. Thurman, Tory M. Taylor, Johanna Nice, Brian Luckett, Myra Taylor, J. D. Kvalsvig
The role of eLearning in health management and leadership capacity building in health system: a systematic review
Lorainne Tudor Car, Bhone Myint Kyaw, Rifat Atun
How to keep registered nurses working in New Zealand even as economic conditions improve
Willoughby Moloney, Des Gorman, Matthew Parsons, Gordon Cheung
Community boundary spanners as an addition to the health workforce to reach marginalised people: a scoping review of the literature
Carolyn Wallace, Jane Farmer, Anthony McCosker
“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria
Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Angela Odiachi, Miriam J. Bathnna, Chinazom N. Ekwueme, Gift Nwanne, Emilia N. Iwu, Llewellyn J. Cornelius
Review and analysis of Chilean dental undergraduate education: curriculum composition and profiles of first year dental students
Renato E. Venturelli Garay, Richard G. Watt
The use of low-cost Android tablets to train community health workers in Mukono, Uganda, in the recognition, treatment and prevention of pneumonia in children under five: a pilot randomised controlled trial
James O’Donovan, Kenneth Kabali, Celia Taylor, Margarita Chukhina, Jacqueline C. Kading, Jonathan Fuld, Edward O’Neil
“If I had known, I would have applied”: poor communication, job dissatisfaction, and attrition of rural health workers in Sierra Leone
Vijay Narayan, Grace John-Stewart, George Gage, Gabrielle O’Malley
Conceptualising production, productivity and technology in pharmacy practice: a novel framework for policy, education and research
D Baines, I Bates, L Bader, C Hale, P Schneider
Assessment of health professional education across five Asian countries—a protocol
Sanjay Zodpey, Pisake Lumbiganon, Tim Evans, Ke Yang, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Himanshu Negandhi, Wanicha Chuenkongkaew, Ahmed Al-Kabir
Realities and experiences of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change: evidence from an informal urban settlement in Kisumu, Kenya
Rose Evalyne Aseyo, Jane Mumma, Kerry Scott, Damaris Nelima, Emily Davis, Kelly K Baker, Oliver Cumming, Robert Dreibelbis
Healthcare workers’ industrial action in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey of Nigerian physicians
Obinna Ositadimma Oleribe, Deborah Udofia, Olabisi Oladipo, Temitope Arike Ishola, Simon D. Taylor-Robinson
Performance-based financing kick-starts motivational “feedback loop”: findings from a process evaluation in Mozambique
Jessica Gergen, Yogesh Rajkotia, Julia Lohmann, Nirmala Ravishankar
Rural training pathways: the return rate of doctors to work in the same region as their basic medical training
Matthew R. McGrail, Belinda G. O’Sullivan, Deborah J. Russell
Factors contributing to motivation of volunteer community health workers in Ethiopia: the case of four woredas (districts) in Oromia and Tigray regions
Habtamu Abdissa Jigssa, Binyam Fekadu Desta, Hibret Alemu Tilahun, Jen McCutcheon, Peter Berman
Institutional effects on nurses’ working conditions: a multi-group comparison of public and private non-profit and for-profit healthcare employers in Switzerland
Remo Aeschbacher, Véronique Addor
Four-year review of presenteeism data among employees of a large United States health care system: a retrospective prevalence study
Donna Allen, Erica Wandtke Hines, Vanessa Pazdernik, Lynda Tierney Konecny, Erin Breitenbach
Comparing time and motion methods to study personnel time in the context of a family planning supply chain intervention in Senegal
Elizabeth McElwee, Jenny A. Cresswell, Christian Yao, Macaire Bakeu, Francesca L. Cavallaro, Diane Duclos, Caroline A. Lynch, Lucy Paintain
Extent and nature of dual practice engagement among Iran medical specialists
Mahboubeh Bayat, Gholamhossein Salehi Zalani, Iraj Harirchi, Azad Shokri, Elmira Mirbahaeddin, Roghayeh Khalilnezhad, Mahmoud Khodadost, Mehdi Yaseri, Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan, Ali Akbari-Sari
International approaches to rural generalist medicine: a scoping review
Nicholas Schubert, Rebecca Evans, Kristine Battye, Tarun Sen Gupta, Sarah Larkins, Lachlan McIver
Factors enabling community health workers and volunteers to overcome socio-cultural barriers to behaviour change: meta-synthesis using the concept of social capital
Nicole Mohajer, Debra Singh
Functioning and time utilisation by female multi-purpose health workers in South India: a time and motion study
Samiksha Singh, Neha Dwivedi, Amol Dongre, Pradeep Deshmukh, Deepak Dey, Vijay Kumar, Sanjeev Upadhyaya
Assessing Ghana’s eHealth workforce: implications for planning and training
Henry A. Ogoe, James A. Asamani, Harry Hochheiser, Gerald P. Douglas
Understanding HRH recruitment in post-conflict settings: an analysis of central-level policies and processes in Timor-Leste (1999–2018)
Maria Paola Bertone, Joao S. Martins, Sara M. Pereira, Tim Martineau, Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo
A labor requirements function for sizing the health workforce
Sofia Cruz-Gomes, Mário Amorim-Lopes, Bernardo Almada-Lobo
Application of machine learning models in predicting length of stay among healthcare workers in underserved communities in South Africa
Sangiwe Moyo, Tuan Nguyen Doan, Jessica Ann Yun, Ndumiso Tshuma
The benefits of international volunteering in a low-resource setting: development of a core outcome set
Natasha Tyler, John Chatwin, Ged Byrne, Jo Hart, Lucie Byrne-Davis