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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The experiences of new graduate nurses and midwives going through a virtual interview recruitment process during the COVID-19 crisis: a cross-sectional study210
Correction to: Real wage growth in the U.S. health workforce and the narrowing of the gender pay gap143
Strategies for maintaining and strengthening the health care workers during epidemics: a scoping review121
Primary health care coverage in Portugal: the promise of a general practitioner for all117
Achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030: investment estimates to increase production of health professionals in India91
Self-reported continuing professional development needs of medical laboratory professionals in Ghana78
Understanding the scope of practice of physician associate/physician associate comparable professions using the World Health Organization global competency and outcomes framework for universal health 56
Factors associated with the rural and remote practice of medical workforce in Maluku Islands of Indonesia: a cross-sectional study43
Retention of healthcare workers 1 year after recruitment and deployment in rural settings: an experience post-Ebola in five health districts in Guinea38
Factors that influence scope of practice of the five largest health care professions in Australia: a scoping review35
Conceptual framework for task shifting and task sharing: an international Delphi study32
Online faculty development in low- and middle-income countries for health professions educators: a rapid realist review29
Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies27
Prestige of disciplines within the field of nursing: a cross-sectional study25
Effectiveness of interventions by non-professional community-level workers or family caregivers to improve outcomes for physical impairments or disabilities in low resource settings: systematic review25
Global estimate of burnout among the public health workforce: a systematic review and meta-analysis24
Assessment of staffing needs for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses at primary care units in Brazil using Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method23
Feasibility and effectiveness of the mindfulness-based stress reduction programs on relieving burnout of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot randomized controlled trial in China23
The association between health workforce availability and HIV-program outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire22
Regional inequalities and substitutability of health resources in the Czech Republic: a five methods of evaluation22
The layered crisis of the primary care medical workforce in the European region: what evidence do we need to identify causes and solutions?21
Assessing competence of mid-level providers delivering primary health care in India: a clinical vignette-based study in Chhattisgarh state21
Development of an impact evaluation framework and planning tool for field epidemiology training programs21
Application of workload indicators to assess the allocation of orthopedists in a national referral hospital in Brazil21
The influence of hospital accreditation on nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture21
Documentation and dissemination of scientific evidence by the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program: experiences and lessons learnt, 2015–202021
Development of the WHO eye care competency framework19
Participation of women in the health workforce in the fragile and conflict-affected countries: a scoping review19
Perceived risk and distress related to COVID-19 in healthcare versus non-healthcare workers of Pakistan: a cross-sectional study19
Leveraging community health workers as vaccinators: a case study exploring the role of Malawi’s Health Surveillance Assistants in delivering routine immunization services19
Building health systems resilience in Central Asia through nursing and midwifery: evidence to inform policy action18
What makes community health worker models for tuberculosis active case finding work? A cross-sectional study of TB REACH projects to identify success factors for increasing case notifications18
Consistency and quality in written accreditation protocols for pediatrician training programs: a mixed-methods analysis of a global sample, and directions for improvement18
Ophthalmology workforce over a decade in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: demographics, distribution, and future challenges17
Resilience, sense of danger, and reporting in wartime: a cross-sectional study of healthcare personnel in a general hospital17
Love over gold and mind over matter? Identifying capabilities that preserve medical assistants’ sustainable employability17
Equivalence between physicians and associate clinicians in the frequency of iatrogenic urogenital fistula following cesarean section in Tanzania and Malawi16
The roles and involvement of global health partners in the health workforce: an exploratory analysis16
Promotion or prevention: regulatory foci as moderators in the job demands–resources model16
Doctors’ alertness, contentedness and calmness before and after night shifts: a latent profile analysis15
Malaysian Medical Students’ Career Intention (MMSCI): a cross-sectional study15
Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia15
Effectiveness of community health workers on identification and mobilization of persons living with epilepsy in rural Rwanda using a validated screening tool15
Rural medical workforce pathways: exploring the importance of postgraduation rural training time15
Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low- and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework15
A systematic mapping review of factors associated with willingness to work under emergency condition15
Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices15
Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries14
The impact of incentive scheme on rural healthcare workforce availability: a case study of Kazakhstan14
Effectiveness of a large-scale, sustained and comprehensive community health worker program in improving population health: the experience of an urban health district in South Africa14
Global migration and factors influencing retention of Asian internationally educated nurses: a systematic review14
Public availability of information from WFME-recognized accreditation agencies14
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 2008–202114
Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future—a systematic review and meta-analysis13
Developing a competency model for Chinese general practitioners: a mixed-methods study13
Medical education interventions influencing physician distribution into underserved communities: a scoping review13
Conceptualizing and implementing a health workforce registry in Nigeria13
Informal payments for modern family planning methods at public facilities in Tanzania: room for improvement13
Multi-country case studies on planning RMNCH services using WISN methodology: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Sultanate of Oman and Papua New Guinea13
The first wave of COVID-19 and mental distress of physician residents in Brazil: a comparison between two cohorts13
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study13
Analysing 3429 digital supervisory interactions between Community Health Workers in Uganda and Kenya: the development, testing and validation of an open access predictive machine learning web app13
Regulation of non-conventional therapies in Portugal: lessons learnt for strengthening human resources in health12
Correction: Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada12
Increasing the number of midwives is necessary but not sufficient: using global data to support the case for investment in both midwife availability and the enabling work environment in low- and middl12
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule12
Methylphenidate use and misuse among medical residents in Israel: a cross-sectional study12
Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review12
The faces behind vaccination: unpacking the attitudes, knowledge, and practices of staff of Cameroon’s Expanded program on Immunization12
Perspectives of physicians on risk factors for patient aggression and violence against physicians in Chinese hospitals: a Q-methodology study12
Human and financial resource needs for universal access to WHO-PEN interventions for diabetes and hypertension care in Eswatini: results from a time-and-motion and bottom-up costing study11
Mitigating psychological distress in healthcare workers as COVID-19 waves ensue: a repeated cross-sectional study from Jordan11
Evolution of physician resources in China (2003–2021): quantity, quality, structure, and geographic distribution11
Applying the workload indicators of staffing needs method in nursing health workforce planning: evidences from four hospitals in Vietnam11
Systematic review of performance-enhancing health worker supervision approaches in low- and middle-income countries11
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers in Ghana: a case for targeted vaccine deployment campaigns in the global south11
A multimodal mentorship intervention to improve surgical quality in Tanzania’s Lake Zone: a convergent, mixed methods assessment11
Management of burnout among the staff of primary care centres in Spain during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-211
Evaluating the effectiveness of Uganda’s Supranational TB Reference Laboratory quality management system training program11
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis11
Trends in the geographic inequality of advanced practice nursing workforce in cancer care in Japan from 1996 to 2022: a panel data analysis11
Performance of the Mexican nursing labor market: a repeated cross-sectional study, 2005–201911
“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 Singapore10
Evaluation of the first two Frontline cohorts of the field epidemiology training program in Guinea, West Africa10
Prevalence and predictors of workplace violence against emergency physicians in China: a cross-sectional study10
The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce10
Frontline healthcare workers’ mental distress, top concerns, and assessment on hierarchy of controls in response to COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey study10
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 staff10
Building global capacity for COVID-19 vaccination through interactive virtual learning10
Characterizing worker compensation claims in long-term care and examining the association between facility characteristics and severe injury: a repeated cross-sectional study from Alberta, Canada10
The rules of scientific rigor: response to Shirzad and Abbassian10
Measuring attentiveness toward oral care needs: a comparative study of Indonesian care workers in Japan and Indonesia10
Evaluation of a continuing professional development strategy on COVID-19 for 10 000 health workers in Ghana: a two-pronged approach9
Managing uncertainty in forecasting health workforce demand using the Robust Workforce Planning Framework: the example of midwives in Belgium9
Accreditation and professional integration experiences of internationally qualified dentists working in the United Kingdom9
Correction: Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries9
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes9
What inhibits “speaking up” for patient safety among healthcare workers? A cross-sectional study in Malaysia9
Healthcare workers knowledge of cholera multi-stranded interventions and its determining factors in North-East Nigeria: planning and policy implications9
Co-developing an integrated primary care workforce planning approach at a regional level: overarching framework and guiding principles9
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) workforce in Canada: a mixed methods study9
Effect of COVID-19 response work experience on turnover intention among employees of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in Seoul9
A novel approach to frontline health worker support: a case study in increasing social power among private, fee-for-service birthing attendants in rural Bangladesh8
A Delphi consensus study to determine the workload components and activity standards of dietitians in South Africa’s central and tertiary public hospitals8
The effectiveness of supervision strategies to improve health care provider practices in low- and middle-income countries: secondary analysis of a systematic review8
Educational needs of medical practitioners about medical billing: a scoping review of the literature8
Tackling brain drain at Chinese CDCs: understanding job preferences of public health doctoral students using a discrete choice experiment survey8
Correction: Informing policy with health labour market analysis to improve availability of family doctors in Tajikistan8
Response to “An overview of health workforce education and accreditation in Africa: implications for scaling-up capacity and quality”8
Gender composition in the work environment and physicians’ income from Medicare Part B fee-for-service payments: evidence from longitudinal data8
Lessons learned from implementation of the Workload Indicator of Staffing Need (WISN) methodology: an international Delphi study of expert users8
A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India8
Prevalence and risk of burnout among HIV service providers in South Africa and Zambia: findings from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial8
Evaluating the association of state regulation of community health workers on adoption of standard roles, skills, and qualities by employers in select states: a mixed methods study8
Doctor of pharmacy as a career option: a cross-sectional study exploring PharmD students and practitioners expectations in Jordan8
Regulating the health workforce in Europe: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Physician emigration from Nigeria and the associated factors: the implications to safeguarding the Nigeria health system8
Recruiting refugees to reduce labour shortages in health care professions: experimental evidence on the potential of foreign-language outreach on social media8
Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff8
Working life expectancy of physicians: the case of primary care physicians in Czechia7
Impacts for health and care workers of Covid-19 and other public health emergencies of international concern: living systematic review, meta-analysis and policy recommendations7
Brazil’s more doctors programme and infant health outcomes: a longitudinal analysis7
An assessment of existing surge capacity of tertiary healthcare system of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan using workload indicators for staffing need method7
Predictors of stress among nucleic acid sampling support nurses (NASSNs) during the COVID-19 pandemic7
The transition of human resources for health information systems from the MDGs into the SDGs and the post-pandemic era: reviewing the evidence from 2000 to 20227
Human resource management research in healthcare: a big data bibliometric study7
Anaesthetic practices at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Northern Uganda, who does what and where? A retrospective study7
Increasing doctors working in specific rural regions through selection from and training in the same region: national evidence from Australia7
Internally versus externally trained residents and fellows hired as attendings at a large integrated healthcare system: a 20-year retrospective study7
Effects of task-shifting from primary care physicians to nurses: an overview of systematic reviews7
The prevalence of turnover intention and influencing factors among emergency physicians: a national observation7
Global trends in medical education accreditation7
Motivation and job satisfaction of community health workers in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods approach7
Gender composition and wage gaps in the Canadian health policy research workforce in comparative perspective7
Establishment of clinical pharmacy services: evidence-based information from stakeholders7
COVID-19 and human resources for health: analysis of planning, policy responses and actions in Latin American and Caribbean countries7
Hesitancy among Iranian nursing students regarding future career trajectory: a qualitative analysis6
Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada6
The importance and feasibility of hospital interventions to prevent and manage patient aggression and violence against physicians in China: a Delphi study6
Attracting and retaining physicians in less attractive specialties: the role of continuing medical education6
Task-sharing to support paediatric and child health service delivery in low- and middle-income countries: current practice and a scoping review of emerging opportunities6
Perceptions of Community Health Workers (CHW) on barriers and enablers to care for people with psychosis in rural Mozambique: findings of a focus group discussion study using the Capability, Opportuni6
“At the mercy of some of the regulations”: the impact of the residency match and return of service requirement on the early-career decisions of international medical graduates in Canada6
Prevalence and determinants of physical violence against doctors in Bangladeshi tertiary care hospitals6
Public service motivation, public sector preference and employment of Kenyan medical doctor interns: a cross-sectional and prospective study6
Factors affecting child welfare and protection workers' intention to quit: a cross-sectional study from Norway6
Physician assistants/associates in psychiatry: a workforce analysis6
Improving health workforce governance: the role of multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms and human resources for health units in ministries of health6
The physiotherapy workforce in the Brazilian Unified Health Care System6
Use it or lose it? Identifying reasons for the low use of psychosocial support by hospital staff6
The enhancement of the employer branding strategies of Polish hospitals through the detection of features which determine employer attractiveness: a multidimensional perspective6
A review of the continuous professional development system for pharmacists6
Factors associated with regional retention of physicians: a cross-sectional online survey of medical students and graduates in Japan6
Impact assessment of the medical practice assisting (MPA) program in general practice in the hunter New England and central coast regions of Australia6
Profile of health care workers in a context of instability: a cross-sectional study of four rural health zones in eastern DR Congo (lessons learned)6
The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis6
Factors affecting the quality of working life among nurses caring for Syrian refugee camps in Jordan6
Exploring healthcare workers’ perceptions of child health research at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi: an interpretative phenomenological analysis6
Migrant physicians’ choice of employment and the medical specialty general practice: a mixed-methods study6
Evidence for recency of practice standards for regulated health practitioners in Australia: a systematic review6
Critical care pharmacy workforce: a 2020 re-evaluation of the UK deployment and characteristics6
Implementing a health labour market analysis to address health workforce gaps in a rural region of India6
Uganda’s response to sexual harassment in the public health sector: from “Dying Silently” to gender-transformational HRH policy6
Inequal distribution of nursing personnel: a subnational analysis of the distribution of nurses across 58 countries6
Leadership, politics, and communication: challenges of the epidemiology workforce during emergency response5
The development of task sharing policy and guidelines in Kenya5
Emotional labor and burnout among nurses in Iran: core self-evaluations as mediator and moderator5
What is the impact of integrated care on the job satisfaction of primary healthcare providers: a systematic review5
Developing a Global Strategy for strengthening the occupational therapy workforce: a two-phased mixed-methods consultation of country representatives shows the need for clarifying task-sharing strateg5
Clinicians’ perspectives on quality: do they match accreditation standards?5
Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce5
Transdisciplinarity of India’s master’s level public health programmes: evidence from admission criteria of the programmes offered since 19955
Work-related factors affecting the retention of medical officers in the preventive health sector in Sri Lanka5
Factors influencing the performance of community health volunteers working within urban informal settlements in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative meta-synthesis review5
Prevalence and pattern of migration intention of doctors undergoing training programmes in public tertiary hospitals in Ekiti State, Nigeria5
Addition of mental health to the lady health worker curriculum in Pakistan: now or never5
Provision of injectable contraceptives by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of safety, acceptability and effectiveness5
Effect of deploying biomedical equipment technician on the functionality of medical equipment in the government hospitals of rural Nepal5
Gender inequity in the medical profession: the women doctors in Spain (WOMEDS) study5
Correction: A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators of telemedicine volunteerism during the COVID-19 pandemic in India5
WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features5
Assessing the mediating role of motivation in the relationship between perceived management support and perceived job satisfaction among family doctors in Jiangsu province, China5
Continuing professional development (CPD) training needs assessment for medical laboratory professionals in Ethiopia5
Assessment of the distribution of human and material resources for eye health in the public sector in Nampula, Mozambique5
Pharmacists as immunizers in Lebanon: a national survey of community pharmacists’ willingness and readiness to administer adult immunization5
Resident physician duty hours, resting times and European Working Time Directive compliance in Spain: a cross-sectional study5
Practices and resilience of dieticians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey in the United Arab Emirates5
“We are the ones who will have to make the change”: Cuban health cooperation and the integration of Cuban medical graduates into practice in the Pacific5
A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia5
A practical measure of health facility efficiency: an innovation in the application of routine health information to determine health worker productivity in Ethiopia5
Association between supportive supervision and performance of community health workers in India: a longitudinal multi-level analysis5
Needs-led human resource planning for Sierra Leone in support of oral health5
Deconcentrating regulation in low- and middle-income country health systems: a proposed ambidextrous solution to problems with professional regulation for doctors and nurses in Kenya and Uganda4
Improving allocative efficiency from network consolidation: a solution for the health workforce shortage4
Equity and trends in general practitioners’ allocation in China: based on ten years of data from 2012 to 20214
Correction: Accreditation as a driver of interprofessional education: the Canadian experience4
Rapid assessment of pre-service midwifery education in conflict settings: findings from a cross-sectional study in Nigeria and Somalia4
Primary care providers’ preferences for pay-for-performance programs: a discrete choice experiment study in Shandong China4
Lessons learned from the history of postgraduate medical training in Japan: from disease-centred care to patient-centred care in an aging society4
How long does it take patients to find a new primary care physician when theirs retires: a population-based, longitudinal study4
Determinants of safety climate at primary care level in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda: a cross-sectional study across 138 selected primary healthcare facilities4
Patterns of health workforce turnover and retention in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in remote communities of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, 2017–20194
Because they’re worth it? A discussion paper on the value of 12-h shifts for hospital nursing4
Health care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review4
Challenges facing the More Doctors program (Programa Mais Médicos) in vulnerable and peri-urban areas in Greater Brasilia, Brazil4
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
A novel approach to estimate the impact of health workforce investments on health outcomes through increased coverage of HIV, TB and malaria services4
Education policies to increase rural physicians in Japan: a nationwide cohort study4
Integrating competency analysis into national rehabilitation workforce evaluation: a case study4
Nurses’ job preferences for working in deprived areas in Tehran: a discrete choice experiment4
Scaling severe acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers: a geospatial coverage analysis in rural Mali4
The association between multi-disciplinary staffing levels and mortality in acute hospitals: a systematic review4
Comparison of depressive symptoms among emergency physicians and the general population in China: a cross-sectional study based on national data4
Real wage growth in the U.S. health workforce and the narrowing of the gender pay gap4
Determining staffing standards for primary care services using workload indicators of staffing needs in the Philippines4
Pre-service medical education course completion and drop-out rates4
How to ensure an appropriate oral health workforce? Modelling future scenarios for the Netherlands4
Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment4
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