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Human Resources for Health

Ausgabe 1/2015

Inhalt (98 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Ireland’s medical brain drain: migration intentions of Irish medical students

Pishoy Gouda, Kevin Kitt, David S Evans, Deirdre Goggin, Deirdre McGrath, Jason Last, Martina Hennessy, Richard Arnett, Siun O’Flynn, Fidelma Dunne, Diarmuid O’Donovan

Open Access Case study

Supporting close-to-community providers through a community health system approach: case examples from Ethiopia and Tanzania

Sarah Smith Lunsford, Kate Fatta, Kim Ethier Stover, Ram Shrestha

Open Access Research

Human resources for health in six healthcare arenas under stress: a qualitative study

Jo Durham, Enrico Pavignani, Mark Beesley, Peter S Hill

Open Access Research

Women doctors and their careers in a large university hospital in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century

Pilar Arrizabalaga, Rosa Abellana, Odette Viñas, Anna Merino, Carlos Ascaso

Open Access Research

Preparing for the data revolution: identifying minimum health information competencies among the health workforce

Maxine Whittaker, Nicola Hodge, Renata E Mares, Anna Rodney

Open Access Research

Perspectives of key stakeholders regarding task shifting of care for HIV patients in Mozambique: a qualitative interview-based study with Ministry of Health leaders, clinicians, and donors

Alison S Rustagi, Rosa Marlene Manjate, Stephen Gloyd, Grace John-Stewart, Mark Micek, Sarah Gimbel, Kenneth Sherr

Open Access Research

Initial experiences and innovations in supervising community health workers for maternal, newborn, and child health in Morogoro region, Tanzania

Timothy Roberton, Jennifer Applegate, Amnesty E Lefevre, Idda Mosha, Chelsea M Cooper, Marissa Silverman, Isabelle Feldhaus, Joy J Chebet, Rose Mpembeni, Helen Semu, Japhet Killewo, Peter Winch, Abdullah H Baqui, Asha S George

Open Access Research

The effect of pre-service training on post-graduation skill and knowledge retention among mid-level healthcare providers in Mozambique

Caryl Feldacker, Sergio Chicumbe, Martinho Dgedge, Freide Cesar, Gerito Augusto, Molly Robertson, Francisco Mbofana, Gabrielle O’Malley

Open Access Research

Job satisfaction and turnover intention among Iraqi doctors - a descriptive cross-sectional multicentre study

Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Ilker Dastan, Ruqiya Subhi Tawfeeq, Mustafa Ali Mustafa, Kurubaran Ganasegeran, Sami Abdo Radman AlDubai

Open Access Methodology

Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development

Gisselle Gallego, Angela Dew, Kim Bulkeley, Craig Veitch, Michelle Lincoln, Anita Bundy, Jennie Brentnall

Open Access Research

Assessment of human resources for health programme implementation in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries

Mario Roberto Dal Poz, Hernan Rodrigo Sepulveda, Maria Helena Costa Couto, Charles Godue, Monica Padilla, Rick Cameron, Thais de Andrade Vidaurre Franco

Open Access Research

Using theory and formative research to design interventions to improve community health worker motivation, retention and performance in Mozambique and Uganda

Daniel Llywelyn Strachan, Karin Källander, Maureen Nakirunda, Sozinho Ndima, Abel Muiambo, Zelee Hill

Open Access Research

How China’s new health reform influences village doctors’ income structure: evidence from a qualitative study in six counties in China

Shengfa Zhang, Weijun Zhang, Huixuan Zhou, Huiwen Xu, Zhiyong Qu, Mengqi Guo, Fugang Wang, You Zhong, Linni Gu, Xiaoyun Liang, Zhihong Sa, Xiaohua Wang, Donghua Tian

Open Access Research

A scoping review of the association between rural medical education and rural practice location

Jane Farmer, Amanda Kenny, Carol McKinstry, Richard D Huysmans

Open Access Research

Career plans of primary care midwives in the Netherlands and their intentions to leave the current job

J Catja Warmelink, Therese A Wiegers, T Paul de Cock, Evelien R Spelten, Eileen K Hutton

Open Access Methodology

Validating a tool to measure auxiliary nurse midwife and nurse motivation in rural Nepal

Joanna Morrison, Neha Batura, Rita Thapa, Regina Basnyat, Jolene Skordis-Worrall

Open Access Research

Enhancing public health practice through a capacity-building educational programme: an evaluation

Preeti Negandhi, Himanshu Negandhi, Kavya Sharma, Sarah Wild, Sanjay Zodpey

Open Access Commentary

Allied health growth: what we do not measure we cannot manage

Daniela Solomon, Nicholas Graves, Judith Catherwood

Open Access Review

State-building and human resources for health in fragile and conflict-affected states: exploring the linkages

Sophie Witter, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Maria Paola Bertone, Alvaro Alonso-Garbayo, João S Martins, Ahmad Shah Salehi, Enrico Pavignani, Tim Martineau

Open Access Research article

Developing effective policy strategies to retain health workers in rural Bangladesh: a policy analysis

Lal B Rawal, Taufique Joarder, Sheikh Md. Shariful Islam, Aftab Uddin, Syed Masud Ahmed

Open Access Review

Handling healthcare workforce planning with care: where do we stand?

Mário Amorim Lopes, Álvaro Santos Almeida, Bernardo Almada-Lobo

Open Access Research

Job and life satisfaction and preference of future practice locations of physicians on remote islands in Japan

Yoshiaki Nojima, Shunichi Kumakura, Keiichi Onoda, Tsuyoshi Hamano, Kiyoshi Kimura

Open Access Research

Human resource crises in German hospitals—an explorative study

Carsten C Schermuly, Michael Draheim, Ronald Glasberg, Vladimir Stantchev, Gerrit Tamm, Michael Hartmann, Franz Hessel

Open Access Case study

Optimizing the interprofessional workforce for centralized intake of patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid disease: case study

Esther Suter, Arden Birney, Paola Charland, Renee Misfeldt, Stephen Weiss, Jane Squire Howden, Jennifer Hendricks, Theresa Lupton, Deborah Marshall

Open Access Case study

An analysis of the medical specialty training system in Spain

José-Manuel Freire, Alberto Infante, Adriana Cavalcanti de Aguiar, Pilar Carbajo

Open Access Research

Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: nuanced needs and varied ambitions

Rose N M Mpembeni, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Amnesty LeFevre, Dereck Chitama, David P Urassa, Charles Kilewo, Rebecca M Mdee, Helen Semu, Peter J Winch, Japhet Killewo, Abdullah H Baqui, Asha George

Open Access Research

Using a human resource management approach to support community health workers: experiences from five African countries

Joanna Raven, Patricia Akweongo, Amuda Baba, Sebastian Olikira Baine, Mohamadou Guelaye Sall, Stephen Buzuzi, Tim Martineau

Open Access Review

Strategic partnering to improve community health worker programming and performance: features of a community-health system integrated approach

Joseph F. Naimoli, Henry B. Perry, John W. Townsend, Diana E. Frymus, James A. McCaffery

Open Access Research

Students’ motivation to study dentistry in Malaysia: an analysis using confirmatory factor analysis

Muhd Firdaus Che Musa, Eduardo Bernabé, Jennifer E Gallagher

Open Access Case study

Challenges and opportunities for effective adoption of HRH information systems in developing countries: national rollout of HRHIS and TIIS in Tanzania

Hisahiro Ishijima, Martin Mapunda, Mathew Mndeme, Felix Sukums, Violeth Solomon Mlay

Open Access Case study

Understanding and valuing the broader health system benefits of Uganda’s national Human Resources for Health Information System investment

Julia Driessen, Dykki Settle, David Potenziani, Kate Tulenko, Twaha Kabocho, Ismail Wadembere

Open Access Case study

Sultanate of Oman: building a dental workforce

Jennifer E Gallagher, Sivakumar Manickam, Nairn HF Wilson

Open Access Research

Exploring the context in which different close-to-community sexual and reproductive health service providers operate in Bangladesh: a qualitative study

Ilias Mahmud, Sadia Chowdhury, Bulbul Ashraf Siddiqi, Sally Theobald, Hermen Ormel, Salauddin Biswas, Yamin Tauseef Jahangir, Malabika Sarker, Sabina Faiz Rashid

Open Access Research

Applying a typology of health worker migration to non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland

Niamh Humphries, Sara McAleese, Ella Tyrrell, Steve Thomas, Charles Normand, Ruairí Brugha

Open Access Research

Should I stay or should I go? Exploring the job preferences of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural Australia

Gisselle Gallego, Angela Dew, Michelle Lincoln, Anita Bundy, Rebecca Jean Chedid, Kim Bulkeley, Jennie Brentnall, Craig Veitch

Open Access Research

Exploring competing experiences and expectations of the revitalized community health worker programme in Mozambique: an equity analysis

Celso Soares Give, Mohsin Sidat, Hermen Ormel, Sozinho Ndima, Rosalind McCollum, Miriam Taegtmeyer

Open Access Research

The impact of physician–nurse task shifting in primary care on the course of disease: a systematic review

Nahara A. Martínez-González, Ryan Tandjung, Sima Djalali, Thomas Rosemann

Open Access Research

Factors influencing the career choice and retention of community mental health workers in Ghana

Vincent I.O. Agyapong, Akwasi Osei, Conor K. Farren, Eilish McAuliffe

Open Access Commentary

Snap shots from a photo competition: what does it reveal about close-to-community providers, gender and power in health systems?

Asha George, Sally Theobald, Rosemary Morgan, Kate Hawkins, Sassy Molyneux

Open Access Case study

The effect of payment and incentives on motivation and focus of community health workers: five case studies from low- and middle-income countries

Debra Singh, Joel Negin, Michael Otim, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Robert Cumming

Open Access Hypothesis

Task sharing within a managed clinical network to improve child health in Malawi

Bernadette O’Hare, Ajib Phiri, Hans-Joerg Lang, Hanny Friesen, Neil Kennedy, Kondwani Kawaza, Collins E. Jana, George Chirambo, Wakisa Mulwafu, Geert T. Heikens, Mwapatsa Mipando

Open Access Research

Supervision of community health workers in Mozambique: a qualitative study of factors influencing motivation and programme implementation

Sozinho Daniel Ndima, Mohsin Sidat, Celso Give, Hermen Ormel, Maryse Catelijne Kok, Miriam Taegtmeyer

Open Access Research

Feminization of the medical workforce in low-income settings; findings from surveys in three African capital cities

Giuliano Russo, Luzia Gonçalves, Isabel Craveiro, Gilles Dussault

Open Access Research

Health sector employment: a tracer indicator for universal health coverage in national Social Protection Floors

Xenia Scheil-Adlung, Thorsten Behrendt, Lorraine Wong

Open Access Case study

A public health e-learning master’s programme with a focus on health workforce development targeting francophone Africa: the University of Geneva experience

Philippe Chastonay, Véronique Zesiger, Roberto Moretti, Marco Cremaschini, Rebecca Bailey, Erika Wheeler, Thomas Mattig, Djona Atchenemou Avocksouma, Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga

Open Access Review

Costs and cost-effectiveness of community health workers: evidence from a literature review

Kelsey Vaughan, Maryse C Kok, Sophie Witter, Marjolein Dieleman

Open Access Research

Motivations for entering and remaining in volunteer service: findings from a mixed-method survey among HIV caregivers in Zambia

Stephanie M Topp, Jessica E Price, Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo, Drosin M Mulenga, Mardieh L Dennis, Mathew M Ngunga

Open Access Case study

Selection and performance of village health teams (VHTs) in Uganda: lessons from the natural helper model of health promotion

Emmanueil Benon Turinawe, Jude T. Rwemisisi, Laban K. Musinguzi, Marije de Groot, Denis Muhangi, Daniel H. de Vries, David K. Mafigiri, Robert Pool

Open Access Review

Physicians’ intention to leave direct patient care: an integrative review

Christiane Degen, Jian Li, Peter Angerer

Open Access Review

Human resources for primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation?

Merlin L Willcox, Wim Peersman, Pierre Daou, Chiaka Diakité, Francis Bajunirwe, Vincent Mubangizi, Eman Hassan Mahmoud, Shabir Moosa, Nthabiseng Phaladze, Oathokwa Nkomazana, Mustafa Khogali, Drissa Diallo, Jan De Maeseneer, David Mant

Open Access Research

Alternative scenarios: harnessing mid-level providers and evidence-based practice in primary dental care in England through operational research

Kristina L. Wanyonyi, David R. Radford, Paul R. Harper, Jennifer E. Gallagher

Open Access Research

A qualitative assessment of health extension workers’ relationships with the community and health sector in Ethiopia: opportunities for enhancing maternal health performance

Maryse C. Kok, Aschenaki Z. Kea, Daniel G. Datiko, Jacqueline E.W. Broerse, Marjolein Dieleman, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Olivia Tulloch

Open Access Commentary

Posting and transfer: key to fostering trust in government health services

Kabir Sheikh, Lynn Freedman, Abdul Ghaffar, Bruno Marchal, Fadi el-Jardali, Jim McCaffery, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mario Dal Poz, Walter Flores, Surekha Garimella, Marta Schaaf

Open Access Research

Job satisfaction and motivation among public sector health workers: evidence from Ethiopia

David R. Hotchkiss, Hailom Banteyerga, Manisha Tharaney

Open Access Research

Regional differences of outpatient physician supply as a theoretical economic and empirical generalized linear model

Stefan Scholz, Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Wolfgang Greiner

Open Access Research

Future requirements for and supply of ophthalmologists for an aging population in Singapore

John P. Ansah, Dirk De Korne, Steffen Bayer, Chong Pan, Thiyagarajan Jayabaskar, David B. Matchar, Nicola Lew, Andrew Phua, Victoria Koh, Ecosse Lamoureux, Desmond Quek

Open Access Research

Global health leadership training in resource-limited settings: a collaborative approach by academic institutions and local health care programs in Uganda

Damalie Nakanjako, Elizabeth Namagala, Aggrey Semeere, Joanitor Kigozi, Joseph Sempa, John Bosco Ddamulira, Achilles Katamba, Sam Biraro, Sarah Naikoba, Yohana Mashalla, Carey Farquhar, Nelson Sewankambo

Open Access Research

Making the transition to workload-based staffing: using the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need method in Uganda

Grace Namaganda, Vincent Oketcho, Everd Maniple, Claire Viadro

Open Access Research

Factors behind job preferences of Peruvian medical, nursing and midwifery students: a qualitative study focused on rural deployment

Luis Huicho, Cristina Molina, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Claudia Lema, J. Jaime Miranda, Carlos A. Huayanay-Espinoza, Andrés G. Lescano

Open Access Research

Health worker migration from South Africa: causes, consequences and policy responses

Ronald Labonté, David Sanders, Thubelihle Mathole, Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, Yoswa Dambisya, Vivien Runnels, Corinne Packer, Adrian MacKenzie, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Open Access Commentary

The roles and training of primary care doctors: China, India, Brazil and South Africa

Robert Mash, Magda Almeida, William C. W. Wong, Raman Kumar, Klaus B. von Pressentin

Open Access Research

Inequality trends of health workforce in different stages of medical system reform (1985-2011) in China

Kaiyuan Zhou, Xinyi Zhang, Yi Ding, Duolao Wang, Zhou Lu, Min Yu

Open Access Research

The privatization of medical education in Brazil: trends and challenges

Mário C. Scheffer, Mario R. Dal Poz

Open Access Research

Profile, knowledge, and work patterns of a cadre of maternal, newborn, and child health CHWs focusing on preventive and promotive services in Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Amnesty E. LeFevre, Rose Mpembeni, Dereck Chitama, Asha S. George, Diwakar Mohan, David P Urassa, Shivam Gupta, Isabelle Feldhaus, Audrey Pereira, Charles Kilewo, Joy J Chebet, Chelsea M Cooper, Giulia Besana, Harriet Lutale, Dunstan Bishanga, Emmanuel Mtete, Helen Semu, Abdullah H Baqui, Japhet Killewo, Peter J Winch

Open Access Research

Health workers’ experiences, barriers, preferences and motivating factors in using mHealth forms in Ethiopia

Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Alex Little, Henock Yebyo, Mark Spigt, Kidane Tadesse, Roman Blanco, Geert-Jan Dinant

Open Access Research

Forecasting future needs and optimal allocation of medical residency positions: the Emilia-Romagna Region case study

Francesca Senese, Paolo Tubertini, Angelina Mazzocchetti, Andrea Lodi, Corrado Ruozi, Roberto Grilli

Open Access Research

Transforming health professions’ education through in-country collaboration: examining the consortia among African medical schools catalyzed by the Medical Education Partnership Initiative

Zohray M Talib, Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Hannah Wohltjen, Miliard Derbew, Yakub Mulla, David Olaleye, Nelson Sewankambo

Open Access Case study

Building policy-making capacity in the Ministry of Health: the Kazakhstan experience

Tata Chanturidze, Orvill Adams, Bolat Tokezhanov, Mike Naylor, Erica Richardson

Open Access Commentary

Six principles to enhance health workforce flexibility

Susan A Nancarrow