Human Resources for Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Human Resources for Health is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review301
The prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression within front-line healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-regression298
A global overview of healthcare workers’ turnover intention amid COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review with future directions110
Barriers and facilitators to online medical and nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from international students from low- and middle-income countries and their teaching staff91
Health care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review84
Size, composition and distribution of health workforce in India: why, and where to invest?82
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to develop more sustainable health workforces74
Challenges and policy opportunities in nursing in Saudi Arabia61
Sustainable workforce: South African Audiologists and Speech Therapists60
Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?60
Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review54
Training in communication skills for self-efficacy of health professionals: a systematic review47
Conceptual framework for task shifting and task sharing: an international Delphi study47
The experiences of female surgeons around the world: a scoping review44
Burnout and depression among psychiatry residents during COVID-19 pandemic39
Maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya: re-contextualising the community midwifery model35
Virtual adaptation of traditional healthcare quality improvement training in response to COVID-19: a rapid narrative review31
WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features29
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers in Ghana: a case for targeted vaccine deployment campaigns in the global south29
Regulating health professional scopes of practice: comparing institutional arrangements and approaches in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK28
Plan, recruit, retain: a framework for local healthcare organizations to achieve a stable remote rural workforce27
Harnessing the digital potential of the next generation of health professionals27
The State of the World’s Midwifery 2021 report: findings to drive global policy and practice27
Mentoring the working nurse: a scoping review26
Occupational stress and burnout among physiotherapists: a cross-sectional survey in Cadiz (Spain)26
The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management26
Implementation and evaluation of a Project ECHO telementoring program for the Namibian HIV workforce25
Workplace violence toward resident doctors in public hospitals of Syria: prevalence, psychological impact, and prevention strategies: a cross-sectional study24
More public health service providers are experiencing job burnout than clinical care providers in primary care facilities in China24
How should community health workers in fragile contexts be supported: qualitative evidence from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo24
Depression among healthcare workers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review and meta-analysis22
Current status and related factors of turnover intention of primary medical staff in Anhui Province, China: a cross-sectional study20
Workforce experience of the implementation of an advanced clinical practice framework in England: a mixed methods evaluation20
The association between the workload of general practitioners and patient experiences with care: results of a cross-sectional study in 33 countries19
Interplaying role of healthcare activist and homemaker: a mixed-methods exploration of the workload of community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists) in India18
Factors associated with increasing rural doctor supply in Asia-Pacific LMICs: a scoping review18
Stakeholder attitudes to the regulation of traditional and complementary medicine professions: a systematic review17
Global trends in medical education accreditation17
Inequal distribution of nursing personnel: a subnational analysis of the distribution of nurses across 58 countries16
Development of accreditation standards for interprofessional education: a Canadian Case Study16
Rebuilding to shape a better future: the role of young professionals in the public health workforce16
A scoping review on family medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: practice, positioning and impact in African health care systems16
Job satisfaction of general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries16
The effect of an mLearning application on nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge and skills for the management of postpartum hemorrhage and neonatal resuscitation: pre–post intervention study16
The effect of breaches of the psychological contract on the job satisfaction and wellbeing of doctors in Ireland: a quantitative study15
Knowledge, attitude, and preparedness toward IPV care provision among nurses and midwives in Tanzania15
Human resources for health interventions in high- and middle-income countries: findings of an evidence review15
Governance in health workforce: how do we improve on the concept? A network-based, stakeholder-driven approach15
Perceived risk and distress related to COVID-19 in healthcare versus non-healthcare workers of Pakistan: a cross-sectional study14
Trend and equity of general practitioners’ allocation in China based on the data from 2012–201714
Effect of healthcare system reforms on job satisfaction among village clinic doctors in China14
The current status of gender equity in medicine in Korea: an online survey about perceived gender discrimination13
Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low- and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework13
Physicians’ perspective on shared decision-making in Dubai: a cross-sectional study13
Medical education interventions influencing physician distribution into underserved communities: a scoping review13
A systematic mapping review of factors associated with willingness to work under emergency condition13
Assessing the staffing needs for primary health care centers in Cross River State, Nigeria: a workload indicators of staffing needs study13
Interprofessional collaboration and barriers among health and social workers caring for older adults: a Philippine case study13
Midwives’ challenges and factors that motivate them to remain in their workplace in the Democratic Republic of Congo—an interview study13
Improving health workforce governance: the role of multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms and human resources for health units in ministries of health13
Missed nursing care in acute care hospital settings in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review13
An analysis of the services provided by community health workers within an urban district in South Africa: a key contribution towards universal access to care12
Shaping applied epidemiology workforce training to strengthen emergency response: a global survey of applied epidemiologists, 2019–202012
Exploring the role of shift work in the self-reported health and wellbeing of long-term and assisted-living professional caregivers in Alberta, Canada12
Establishing voluntary certification of community health workers in Arizona: a policy case study of building a unified workforce11
Participation of women in the health workforce in the fragile and conflict-affected countries: a scoping review11
Experiences of a new cadre of midwives in Bangladesh: findings from a mixed method study11
An overview of health workforce education and accreditation in Africa: implications for scaling-up capacity and quality11
Preferences of physicians for public and private sector work11
Increasing doctors working in specific rural regions through selection from and training in the same region: national evidence from Australia11
Co-developing an integrated primary care workforce planning approach at a regional level: overarching framework and guiding principles11
The physiotherapy workforce in the Brazilian Unified Health Care System11
Systematic review of performance-enhancing health worker supervision approaches in low- and middle-income countries11
Management of burnout among the staff of primary care centres in Spain during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-211
Regulating the health workforce in Europe: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic11
Modern work patterns of “classic” versus millennial family doctors and their effect on workforce planning for community-based primary care: a cross-sectional survey11
Attracting and retaining physicians in less attractive specialties: the role of continuing medical education11
Nurses in advanced roles as a strategy for equitable access to healthcare in the WHO Western Pacific region: a mixed methods study11
What do we mean by individual capacity strengthening for primary health care in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic scoping review to improve conceptual clarity10
COVID-19 and doctor emigration: the case of Ireland10
Global experiences in health workforce policy, planning and management using the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method, and way forward10
Why do graduates choose to work in a less attractive specialty? A cross-sectional study on the role of personal values and expectations10
Education policies to increase rural physicians in Japan: a nationwide cohort study10
Tools for measuring medical internship experience: a scoping review9
Outcomes, mechanisms and contextual factors of positive psychology interventions for health workers: a systematic review of global evidence9
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes9
Diversifying the health workforce: a mixed methods analysis of an employment integration strategy9
Variations in regulations to control standards for training and licensing of physicians: a multi-country comparison9
How many and which physicians? A comparative study of the evolution of the supply of physicians and specialist training in Brazil and Spain9
Implications for health system reform, workforce recovery and rebuilding in the context of the Great Recession and COVID-19: a case study of workforce trends in Ireland 2008–20219
Situational analysis and reflections on the introduction of advanced practice nurses in Brazilian primary healthcare9
Increasing access to health workers in rural and remote areas: what do stakeholders’ value and find feasible and acceptable?9
Health professional regulation in historical context: Canada, the USA and the UK (19th century to present)9
Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic9
Task-shifting directly observed treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injection administration to lay health workers: stakeholder perceptions in rural Eswatini9
Turnover among Australian general practitioners: a longitudinal gender analysis9
A cross-sectional study on preferred employment settings of final-year nursing students in Israel9
Looking back to look forward: a review of human resources for health governance in South Africa from 1994 to 20189
The effectiveness of supervision strategies to improve health care provider practices in low- and middle-income countries: secondary analysis of a systematic review8
Interprofessional collaboration among health professionals in cleft lip and palate treatment and care in the public health sector of South Africa8
Approaches to motivate physicians and nurses in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review8
Barriers to surgery performed by non-physician clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa—a scoping review8
Regulation of non-conventional therapies in Portugal: lessons learnt for strengthening human resources in health8
Determining staffing standards for primary care services using workload indicators of staffing needs in the Philippines8
Physician emigration from Nigeria and the associated factors: the implications to safeguarding the Nigeria health system8
Evaluating medical education regulation changes in Brazil: workforce impact8
Because they’re worth it? A discussion paper on the value of 12-h shifts for hospital nursing8
A systematic review of the profile and density of the maternal and child health workforce in China8
Factors associated with the rural and remote practice of medical workforce in Maluku Islands of Indonesia: a cross-sectional study8
Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future—a systematic review and meta-analysis8
The impact of colonial-era policies on health workforce regulation in India: lessons for contemporary reform8
Professional integration of immigrant medical professionals through alternative career pathways: an Internet scan to synthesize the current landscape8
Are health care assistants part of the long-term solution to the nursing workforce deficit in Kenya?8
Work-life interface and intention to stay in the midwifery profession among pre- and post-clinical placement students in Canada8
A review of the continuous professional development system for pharmacists8
Interprofessional education-relevant accreditation standards in Canada: a comparative document analysis8
The prevalence of turnover intention and influencing factors among emergency physicians: a national observation7
Job satisfaction among Syrian healthcare workers in refugee health centres7
Involving systems thinking and implementation science in pharmacists’ emerging role to facilitate the safe and appropriate use of traditional and complementary medicines7
Practices and resilience of dieticians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey in the United Arab Emirates7
Factors affecting job choice among physician anesthesia providers in Uganda: a survey of income composition, discrete choice experiment, and implications for the decision to work rurally7
Recruitment, training and supervision of nurses and nurse assistants for a task-shifting depression intervention in two RCTs in Brazil and Peru7
Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico7
Factors associated with the recruitment of foreign nurses in Japan: a nationwide study of hospitals7
Development assistance for human resources for health, 1990–20207
Job strain and burnout in Spanish nurses during the COVID-19: resilience as a protective factor in a cross-sectional study7
Alignment and contribution of nursing doctoral programs to achieve the sustainable development goals7
The regulation of healthcare professions and support workers in international context7
Pharmacists as immunizers in Lebanon: a national survey of community pharmacists’ willingness and readiness to administer adult immunization7
Drivers and barriers of international migration of doctors to and from the United Kingdom: a scoping review7
Assessment of staffing needs for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses at primary care units in Brazil using Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method7
“The emotions were like a roller-coaster”: a qualitative analysis of e-diary data on healthcare worker resilience and adaptation during the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore7
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule7
Retention of healthcare workers 1 year after recruitment and deployment in rural settings: an experience post-Ebola in five health districts in Guinea7
Task-sharing to support paediatric and child health service delivery in low- and middle-income countries: current practice and a scoping review of emerging opportunities7
Factors influencing the performance of community health volunteers working within urban informal settlements in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative meta-synthesis review7
Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries7
Do health policies address the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of human resources for health? Analysis over three decades of National Health Policy of India7
How can human resources for health interventions contribute to sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn healthcare quality across the continuum in low- and lower-middle-income countries? A systemat7
Caring Behaviors Inventory-24: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing for use in a Swedish context7
Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment7
Pharmaceutical care in Chinese public tertiary hospitals: findings from the 4th National Healthcare Improvement Initiative Survey7
Assessing the mental effects of COVID-19-related work on depression among community health workers in Vietnam7
Who could be One Health Activist at the community level?: A case for India7
A needs-based methodology to project physicians and nurses to 2030: the case of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia6
System dynamics modelling of health workforce planning to address future challenges of Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage6
Association between supportive supervision and performance of community health workers in India: a longitudinal multi-level analysis6
Developing metrics for nursing quality of care for low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review linked to stakeholder engagement6
Redressing the gender imbalance: a qualitative analysis of recruitment and retention in Mozambique’s community health workforce6
Regulation, migration and expectation: internationally qualified health practitioners in Australia—a qualitative study6
A multimodal mentorship intervention to improve surgical quality in Tanzania’s Lake Zone: a convergent, mixed methods assessment6
Needs-led human resource planning for Sierra Leone in support of oral health6
Multi-country case studies on planning RMNCH services using WISN methodology: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Sultanate of Oman and Papua New Guinea6
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study6
Medical students from German-speaking countries on abroad electives in Africa: destinations, motivations, trends and ethical dilemmas6
Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices6
Evaluating a capacity building program on women’s health for displaced community health workers in fragile settings in Lebanon6
Radiotherapy in the Caribbean: a spotlight on the human resource and equipment challenges among CARICOM nations6
Workforce problems at rural public health-centres in India: a WISN retrospective analysis and national-level modelling study6
Leadership, politics, and communication: challenges of the epidemiology workforce during emergency response6
How to make the best use of the workload indicators of staffing needs method in determining the proportion of time spent in each of the workload components and its implication in decision making: the 6
Interprofessional education and collaborative practice policies and law: an international review and reflective questions6
A comparative analysis on human resources among the specialized ophthalmic medical institutions in China6
Do UK Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) have sufficient guidelines and training to provide telehealth patient consultations?6
The workforce for rehabilitation in primary health care in Brazil5
Visualizing the drivers of an effective health workforce: a detailed, interactive logic model5
Development of competency model for family physicians against the background of ‘internet plus healthcare’ in China: a mixed methods study5
How surface acting affects turnover intention among family doctors in rural China: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of occupational commitment5
Ensuring quality of health workforce education and practice: strengthening roles of accreditation and regulatory systems5
Mapping the peer-reviewed literature on accommodating nurses’ return to work after leaves of absence for mental health issues: a scoping review5
An assessment of existing surge capacity of tertiary healthcare system of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan using workload indicators for staffing need method5
From village health volunteers to paid care givers: the optimal mix for a multidisciplinary home health care workforce in rural Thailand5
Workload assessment of medical doctors at primary health care centers in the Duhok governorate5
Lessons learned from implementation of the Workload Indicator of Staffing Need (WISN) methodology: an international Delphi study of expert users5
Uganda’s response to sexual harassment in the public health sector: from “Dying Silently” to gender-transformational HRH policy5
Increasing nursing student interest in rural healthcare: lessons from a rural rotation program in Democratic Republic of the Congo5
Accreditation and professional integration experiences of internationally qualified dentists working in the United Kingdom5
The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis5
Assessment of training and mentoring for DR-TB care decentralization in Tanzania5
Reflecting on the current scenario and forecasting the future demand for medical doctors in South Africa up to 2030: towards equal representation of women5
Global Fund financing and human resources for health investments in the Eastern Mediterranean Region5
Relevant HRH leadership during public health emergencies5
Educational needs of medical practitioners about medical billing: a scoping review of the literature5
Provision of injectable contraceptives by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of safety, acceptability and effectiveness5
Application of the Ultra-Poverty Graduation Model in understanding community health volunteers’ preferences for socio-economic empowerment strategies to enhance retention: a qualitative study in Kilif5
Informing investment in health workforce in Bangladesh: a health labour market analysis5
An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 2): quantitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada5
Real wage growth in the U.S. health workforce and the narrowing of the gender pay gap5
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis5
Predictive factors of the general public’s willingness to be seen and seek treatment from a nurse practitioner in Australia: a cross-sectional national survey5
Conceptualizing and implementing a health workforce registry in Nigeria5
Evidence for continuing professional development standards for regulated health practitioners in Australia: a systematic review4
Regulation of the global orthotist/prosthetist workforce, and what we might learn from allied health professions with international-level regulatory support: a narrative review4
Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia4
Use of the WISN method to assess the health workforce requirements for the high-volume clinical biochemical laboratories4
Lessons learned from the history of postgraduate medical training in Japan: from disease-centred care to patient-centred care in an aging society4
Prevalence and determinants of physical violence against doctors in Bangladeshi tertiary care hospitals4
Improving allocative efficiency from network consolidation: a solution for the health workforce shortage4
Hiding in plain sight: the absence of consideration of the gendered dimensions in ‘source’ country perspectives on health worker migration4
Adapting a health video library for use in Afghanistan: provider-level acceptability and lessons for strengthening operational feasibility4
Measuring motivation among close-to-community health workers: developing the CTC Provider Motivational Indicator Scale across six countries4
Reimagining the role of the nursing workforce in Uganda after more than a decade of ART scale-up4
Public availability of information from WFME-recognized accreditation agencies4
Prevalence and pattern of migration intention of doctors undergoing training programmes in public tertiary hospitals in Ekiti State, Nigeria4
Using modeling and scenario analysis to support evidence-based health workforce strategic planning in Malawi4
Effect of doctor allocation policies on the equitable distribution of doctors in Thailand4
Using data to support evidence-informed decisions about skilled birth attendants in fragile contexts: a situational analysis from Democratic Republic of the Congo4
Stock-outs of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic literature review of the extent, reasons, and consequences4
The association between multi-disciplinary staffing levels and mortality in acute hospitals: a systematic review4
The development of task sharing policy and guidelines in Kenya4
Accreditation of private midwifery and nursing schools in Mali: a local sustainable solution to increasing the supply of qualified health workers4
Tackling brain drain at Chinese CDCs: understanding job preferences of public health doctoral students using a discrete choice experiment survey4
Impact of Medical Doctors Global Health and Tropical Medicine on decision-making in caesarean section: a pre- and post-implementation study in a rural hospital in Malawi4
Effect of deploying biomedical equipment technician on the functionality of medical equipment in the government hospitals of rural Nepal4
Critical care pharmacy workforce: a 2020 re-evaluation of the UK deployment and characteristics4
The changing demographics of the orthotist/prosthetist workforce in Australia: 2007, 2012 and 20194
Does engagement with frontline health workers improve maternal and child healthcare utilisation and outcomes in India?4
A health care professionals training needs assessment for oncology in Uganda4
COVID-19 and human resources for health: analysis of planning, policy responses and actions in Latin American and Caribbean countries4
Task-shifting to improve asthma education for Malawian children: a qualitative analysis4
Systemic structural gender discrimination and inequality in the health workforce: theoretical lenses for gender analysis, multi-country evidence and implications for implementation and HRH policy4
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