Human Resources for Health

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The prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression within front-line healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-regression	336
A global overview of healthcare workers’ turnover intention amid COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review with future directions	162
Health care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	110
Size, composition and distribution of health workforce in India: why, and where to invest?	105
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 staff	103
Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review	78
Challenges and policy opportunities in nursing in Saudi Arabia	72
Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?	72
Training in communication skills for self-efficacy of health professionals: a systematic review	64
Conceptual framework for task shifting and task sharing: an international Delphi study	57
Burnout and depression among psychiatry residents during COVID-19 pandemic	46
Regulating health professional scopes of practice: comparing institutional arrangements and approaches in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK	42
The State of the World’s Midwifery 2021 report: findings to drive global policy and practice	36
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers in Ghana: a case for targeted vaccine deployment campaigns in the global south	34
The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management	33
WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features	32
Harnessing the digital potential of the next generation of health professionals	32
Occupational stress and burnout among physiotherapists: a cross-sectional survey in Cadiz (Spain)	31
More public health service providers are experiencing job burnout than clinical care providers in primary care facilities in China	29
Current status and related factors of turnover intention of primary medical staff in Anhui Province, China: a cross-sectional study	27
Depression among healthcare workers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Workplace violence toward resident doctors in public hospitals of Syria: prevalence, psychological impact, and prevention strategies: a cross-sectional study	26
Workforce experience of the implementation of an advanced clinical practice framework in England: a mixed methods evaluation	25
Trend and equity of general practitioners’ allocation in China based on the data from 2012–2017	22
Factors associated with increasing rural doctor supply in Asia-Pacific LMICs: a scoping review	22

Interplaying role of healthcare activist and homemaker: a mixed-methods exploration of the workload of community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists) in India	22
Development of accreditation standards for interprofessional education: a Canadian Case Study	22
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 study	21
Global trends in medical education accreditation	20
Stakeholder attitudes to the regulation of traditional and complementary medicine professions: a systematic review	20
Inequal distribution of nursing personnel: a subnational analysis of the distribution of nurses across 58 countries	19
Rebuilding to shape a better future: the role of young professionals in the public health workforce	19
Missed nursing care in acute care hospital settings in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review	19
Job satisfaction of general practitioners: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries	18
Governance in health workforce: how do we improve on the concept? A network-based, stakeholder-driven approach	18
Medical education interventions influencing physician distribution into underserved communities: a scoping review	17
The effect of breaches of the psychological contract on the job satisfaction and wellbeing of doctors in Ireland: a quantitative study	17
Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future—a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low- and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework	17
Effect of healthcare system reforms on job satisfaction among village clinic doctors in China	16
Interprofessional collaboration and barriers among health and social workers caring for older adults: a Philippine case study	16
Participation of women in the health workforce in the fragile and conflict-affected countries: a scoping review	16
Shaping applied epidemiology workforce training to strengthen emergency response: a global survey of applied epidemiologists, 2019–2020	16
Improving health workforce governance: the role of multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms and human resources for health units in ministries of health	16
Nurses in advanced roles as a strategy for equitable access to healthcare in the WHO Western Pacific region: a mixed methods study	15
An overview of health workforce education and accreditation in Africa: implications for scaling-up capacity and quality	15
Physician emigration from Nigeria and the associated factors: the implications to safeguarding the Nigeria health system	15
Management of burnout among the staff of primary care centres in Spain during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2	15
Assessing the staffing needs for primary health care centers in Cross River State, Nigeria: a workload indicators of staffing needs study	15
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 clarity	14
A review of the continuous professional development system for pharmacists	14
A systematic mapping review of factors associated with willingness to work under emergency condition	14
Perceived risk and distress related to COVID-19 in healthcare versus non-healthcare workers of Pakistan: a cross-sectional study	14
Increasing doctors working in specific rural regions through selection from and training in the same region: national evidence from Australia	13
Education policies to increase rural physicians in Japan: a nationwide cohort study	13
Global experiences in health workforce policy, planning and management using the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method, and way forward	13
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 consequences	13
An analysis of the services provided by community health workers within an urban district in South Africa: a key contribution towards universal access to care	13
Systematic review of performance-enhancing health worker supervision approaches in low- and middle-income countries	13
Evidence for continuing professional development standards for regulated health practitioners in Australia: a systematic review	12
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes	12
Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic	12
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 2008–2021	12
Co-developing an integrated primary care workforce planning approach at a regional level: overarching framework and guiding principles	12
Regulating the health workforce in Europe: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Drivers and barriers of international migration of doctors to and from the United Kingdom: a scoping review	12
Diversifying the health workforce: a mixed methods analysis of an employment integration strategy	12
The effectiveness of supervision strategies to improve health care provider practices in low- and middle-income countries: secondary analysis of a systematic review	11
Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices	11
Factors associated with the rural and remote practice of medical workforce in Maluku Islands of Indonesia: a cross-sectional study	11
Determining staffing standards for primary care services using workload indicators of staffing needs in the Philippines	11
Pharmacists as immunizers in Lebanon: a national survey of community pharmacists’ willingness and readiness to administer adult immunization	11
Professional integration of immigrant medical professionals through alternative career pathways: an Internet scan to synthesize the current landscape	11
COVID-19 and doctor emigration: the case of Ireland	11
Task-shifting directly observed treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injection administration to lay health workers: stakeholder perceptions in rural Eswatini	11

Attracting and retaining physicians in less attractive specialties: the role of continuing medical education	11
Development assistance for human resources for health, 1990–2020	10
Tools for measuring medical internship experience: a scoping review	10
Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries	10
Interprofessional education and collaborative practice policies and law: an international review and reflective questions	10
Situational analysis and reflections on the introduction of advanced practice nurses in Brazilian primary healthcare	10
A needs-based methodology to project physicians and nurses to 2030: the case of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	10
Interprofessional collaboration among health professionals in cleft lip and palate treatment and care in the public health sector of South Africa	10
The physiotherapy workforce in the Brazilian Unified Health Care System	10
Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment	10
Retention of healthcare workers 1 year after recruitment and deployment in rural settings: an experience post-Ebola in five health districts in Guinea	10
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 systemat	10
The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis	10
Task-sharing to support paediatric and child health service delivery in low- and middle-income countries: current practice and a scoping review of emerging opportunities	10
Factors influencing the performance of community health volunteers working within urban informal settlements in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative meta-synthesis review	9
System dynamics modelling of health workforce planning to address future challenges of Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage	9
Uganda’s response to sexual harassment in the public health sector: from “Dying Silently” to gender-transformational HRH policy	9
Evaluating medical education regulation changes in Brazil: workforce impact	9
Turnover among Australian general practitioners: a longitudinal gender analysis	9
Looking back to look forward: a review of human resources for health governance in South Africa from 1994 to 2018	9
Interprofessional education-relevant accreditation standards in Canada: a comparative document analysis	9
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study	9
How surface acting affects turnover intention among family doctors in rural China: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of occupational commitment	9
Because they’re worth it? A discussion paper on the value of 12-h shifts for hospital nursing	9
Approaches to motivate physicians and nurses in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review	9
Factors associated with the recruitment of foreign nurses in Japan: a nationwide study of hospitals	9
The prevalence of turnover intention and influencing factors among emergency physicians: a national observation	9
Job satisfaction among Syrian healthcare workers in refugee health centres	9
Outcomes, mechanisms and contextual factors of positive psychology interventions for health workers: a systematic review of global evidence	9
A systematic review of the profile and density of the maternal and child health workforce in China	9
Assessment of staffing needs for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses at primary care units in Brazil using Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method	9
Variations in regulations to control standards for training and licensing of physicians: a multi-country comparison	9
Systemic structural gender discrimination and inequality in the health workforce: theoretical lenses for gender analysis, multi-country evidence and implications for implementation and HRH policy	8
The regulation of healthcare professions and support workers in international context	8
The impact of colonial-era policies on health workforce regulation in India: lessons for contemporary reform	8
The layered crisis of the primary care medical workforce in the European region: what evidence do we need to identify causes and solutions?	8
A multimodal mentorship intervention to improve surgical quality in Tanzania’s Lake Zone: a convergent, mixed methods assessment	8
Assessing the mental effects of COVID-19-related work on depression among community health workers in Vietnam	8
Leadership, politics, and communication: challenges of the epidemiology workforce during emergency response	8
Predictive factors of the general public’s willingness to be seen and seek treatment from a nurse practitioner in Australia: a cross-sectional national survey	8
Practices and resilience of dieticians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey in the United Arab Emirates	8
Implementing a health labour market analysis to address health workforce gaps in a rural region of India	8
Prevalence and predictors of workplace violence against emergency physicians in China: a cross-sectional study	8
Factors that influence scope of practice of the five largest health care professions in Australia: a scoping review	8
Workforce problems at rural public health-centres in India: a WISN retrospective analysis and national-level modelling study	8
Needs-led human resource planning for Sierra Leone in support of oral health	8
Educational needs of medical practitioners about medical billing: a scoping review of the literature	8
Visualizing the drivers of an effective health workforce: a detailed, interactive logic model	8
“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 Singapore	8
Regulation of non-conventional therapies in Portugal: lessons learnt for strengthening human resources in health	8
Tackling brain drain at Chinese CDCs: understanding job preferences of public health doctoral students using a discrete choice experiment survey	7
Caring Behaviors Inventory-24: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing for use in a Swedish context	7
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 rurally	7
Recruitment, training and supervision of nurses and nurse assistants for a task-shifting depression intervention in two RCTs in Brazil and Peru	7
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis	7
Job strain and burnout in Spanish nurses during the COVID-19: resilience as a protective factor in a cross-sectional study	7
Prevalence and associated factors for workplace violence among general practitioners in China: a national cross-sectional study	7
Medical students from German-speaking countries on abroad electives in Africa: destinations, motivations, trends and ethical dilemmas	7
Accreditation and professional integration experiences of internationally qualified dentists working in the United Kingdom	7
Assessment of training and mentoring for DR-TB care decentralization in Tanzania	7
Real wage growth in the U.S. health workforce and the narrowing of the gender pay gap	7
Who could be One Health Activist at the community level?: A case for India	7
Multi-country case studies on planning RMNCH services using WISN methodology: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Sultanate of Oman and Papua New Guinea	7
Alignment and contribution of nursing doctoral programs to achieve the sustainable development goals	7
Do health policies address the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of human resources for health? Analysis over three decades of National Health Policy of India	7
Provision of injectable contraceptives by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of safety, acceptability and effectiveness	7
Using modeling and scenario analysis to support evidence-based health workforce strategic planning in Malawi	7
Evaluating a capacity building program on women’s health for displaced community health workers in fragile settings in Lebanon	7
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule	7
From village health volunteers to paid care givers: the optimal mix for a multidisciplinary home health care workforce in rural Thailand	7
Regulation of the global orthotist/prosthetist workforce, and what we might learn from allied health professions with international-level regulatory support: a narrative review	7
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
Lessons learned from the history of postgraduate medical training in Japan: from disease-centred care to patient-centred care in an aging society	6
Increasing nursing student interest in rural healthcare: lessons from a rural rotation program in Democratic Republic of the Congo	6
Design, delivery and effectiveness of health practitioner regulation systems: an integrative review	6
Do UK Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) have sufficient guidelines and training to provide telehealth patient consultations?	6
The association between multi-disciplinary staffing levels and mortality in acute hospitals: a systematic review	6
A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia	6
Association between supportive supervision and performance of community health workers in India: a longitudinal multi-level analysis	6
Factors affecting child welfare and protection workers' intention to quit: a cross-sectional study from Norway	6

The association between health workforce availability and HIV-program outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire	6
An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 2): quantitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada	6
Research capacity, motivators and barriers to conducting research among healthcare providers in Tanzania’s public health system: a mixed methods study	6
Workload assessment of medical doctors at primary health care centers in the Duhok governorate	6
Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia	6
Effect of doctor allocation policies on the equitable distribution of doctors in Thailand	6
Dermatology workforce over a decade in Saudi Arabia: demographics, distributions, and future challenges	6
Reflecting on the current scenario and forecasting the future demand for medical doctors in South Africa up to 2030: towards equal representation of women	6
COVID-19 and human resources for health: analysis of planning, policy responses and actions in Latin American and Caribbean countries	6
Evaluation of the first two Frontline cohorts of the field epidemiology training program in Guinea, West Africa	5
Online faculty development in low- and middle-income countries for health professions educators: a rapid realist review	5
Improving allocative efficiency from network consolidation: a solution for the health workforce shortage	5
Mitigating psychological distress in healthcare workers as COVID-19 waves ensue: a repeated cross-sectional study from Jordan	5
Brazil’s more doctors programme and infant health outcomes: a longitudinal analysis	5
Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff	5
Conceptualizing and implementing a health workforce registry in Nigeria	5
The changing demographics of the orthotist/prosthetist workforce in Australia: 2007, 2012 and 2019	5
Informing investment in health workforce in Bangladesh: a health labour market analysis	5
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 Kilif	5
Scaling severe acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers: a geospatial coverage analysis in rural Mali	5
An assessment of existing surge capacity of tertiary healthcare system of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan using workload indicators for staffing need method	5
Motivation and job satisfaction of community health workers in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods approach	5
Lessons learned from implementation of the Workload Indicator of Staffing Need (WISN) methodology: an international Delphi study of expert users	5
Relevant HRH leadership during public health emergencies	5
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 notifications	5
Prevalence and pattern of migration intention of doctors undergoing training programmes in public tertiary hospitals in Ekiti State, Nigeria	5
Evaluation of a continuing professional development strategy on COVID-19 for 10 000 health workers in Ghana: a two-pronged approach	5
Does engagement with frontline health workers improve maternal and child healthcare utilisation and outcomes in India?	5
Hiding in plain sight: the absence of consideration of the gendered dimensions in ‘source’ country perspectives on health worker migration	5
Transdisciplinarity of India’s master’s level public health programmes: evidence from admission criteria of the programmes offered since 1995	5
Prevalence of caregiving and high caregiving strain among late-career medical school faculty members: workforce, policy, and faculty development implications	5
The workforce for rehabilitation in primary health care in Brazil	5
Prevalence and determinants of physical violence against doctors in Bangladeshi tertiary care hospitals	5
Accreditation of private midwifery and nursing schools in Mali: a local sustainable solution to increasing the supply of qualified health workers	4
Use of the WISN method to assess the health workforce requirements for the high-volume clinical biochemical laboratories	4
What is the impact of integrated care on the job satisfaction of primary healthcare providers: a systematic review	4
A practical measure of health facility efficiency: an innovation in the application of routine health information to determine health worker productivity in Ethiopia	4
Engaging leadership and nurse well-being: the role of the work environment and work motivation—a cross-sectional study	4
Estimating staffing requirements using workload indicators of staffing need at Braun District Hospital in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea	4
Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies	4
Work-related factors affecting the retention of medical officers in the preventive health sector in Sri Lanka	4
The development of task sharing policy and guidelines in Kenya	4
Clinicians’ perspectives on quality: do they match accreditation standards?	4
Does supportive supervision intervention improve community health worker knowledge and practices for community management of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia? Lessons for scale-up from Nigraan and Nig	4
Effect of deploying biomedical equipment technician on the functionality of medical equipment in the government hospitals of rural Nepal	4
Complexities of health and care worker migration pathways and corresponding international reporting requirements	4
Application of workload indicators to assess the allocation of orthopedists in a national referral hospital in Brazil	4
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	4
Task-shifting to improve asthma education for Malawian children: a qualitative analysis	4
Public availability of information from WFME-recognized accreditation agencies	4
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 Malawi	4
Rural medical workforce pathways: exploring the importance of postgraduation rural training time	4
The role of community health workers in the surgical cascade: a scoping review	4
Critical care pharmacy workforce: a 2020 re-evaluation of the UK deployment and characteristics	4
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, Opportuni	4
What are the job attribute preferences of physicians and nurses in Türkiye? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment	4
Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review	4
Job satisfaction and its associated factors among opticians in Ghana: a cross-sectional study	3
Application of the workload indicators of staffing need method to calculate the size of the medical staff at a maternity hospital in the state of Bahia, Brazil	3
Factors supporting retention of health and wellbeing staff in Aboriginal health services: a strength-based case study	3
Leveraging community health workers as vaccinators: a case study exploring the role of Malawi’s Health Surveillance Assistants in delivering routine immunization services	3
Building global capacity for COVID-19 vaccination through interactive virtual learning	3
Attitude of nurses and midwives towards collaborative care with physicians in Jimma University medical center, Jimma, South West Ethiopia	3
Performance of the Mexican nursing labor market: a repeated cross-sectional study, 2005–2019	3
Becoming a resident in a high demanded medical specialty: an unequal race? Evidence from the Spanish resident market	3
Accreditation as a driver of interprofessional education: the Canadian experience	3
Applying WHO COVID-19 workforce estimate tools remotely in an African context: a case report from Mali and Kenya	3
Gender inequity in the medical profession: the women doctors in Spain (WOMEDS) study	3
‘You say you are a TB doctor, but actually, you do not have any power’: health worker (de)motivation in the context of integrated, hospital-based tuberculosis care in eastern China	3
Impact of reliable light and electricity on job satisfaction among maternity health workers in Uganda: A cluster randomized trial	3
Hospitalization, death, and probable reinfection in Peruvian healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2: a national retrospective cohort study	3
Effectiveness of community health workers on identification and mobilization of persons living with epilepsy in rural Rwanda using a validated screening tool	3
Factors associated with regional retention of physicians: a cross-sectional online survey of medical students and graduates in Japan	3
Global accreditation practices for accelerated medically trained clinicians: a view of five countries	3
Expanding Community Health Worker decision space: learning from a Participatory Action Research training intervention in a rural South African district	3
Applying the workload indicators of staffing needs method in nursing health workforce planning: evidences from four hospitals in Vietnam	3
The enhancement of the employer branding strategies of Polish hospitals through the detection of features which determine employer attractiveness: a multidimensional perspective	3
Three decades of a lesson learned from Thailand: compulsory service for dentist workforce distribution	3
Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce	3
Equity and trends in general practitioners’ allocation in China: based on ten years of data from 2012 to 2021	3
Can machine learning models predict maternal and newborn healthcare providers’ perception of safety during the COVID-19 pandemic? A cross-sectional study of a global online survey	3
Changes in work conditions and well-being among healthcare professionals in long-term care settings in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	3
Factors influencing practice choices of early-career family physicians in Canada: a qualitative interview study	3
Adopting workload-based staffing norms at public sector health facilities in Bangladesh: evidence from two districts	3
Characterization and distribution of medicine vendors in 2 states in Nigeria: implications for scaling health workforce and family planning services	3
Professional care workforce: a rapid review of evidence supporting methods of recruitment, retention, safety, and education	3
Competitive employer positioning through career path analysis: the case of the Swiss nursing sector	3
An equitable and sustainable community of practice framework to address the use of artificial intelligence for global health workforce training	3
Assessing competence of mid-level providers delivering primary health care in India: a clinical vignette-based study in Chhattisgarh state	3
Strengthening the clinical laboratory workforce in Cambodia: a case study of a mixed-method in-service training program to improve laboratory quality management system oversight	3
Narrowing but persisting gender pay gap among employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services during 2010–2018	3
An integrated primary care workforce planning toolkit at the regional level (part 1): qualitative tools compiled for decision-makers in Toronto, Canada	3
Teamwork quality and health workers burnout nexus: a new insight from canonical correlation analysis	3
Achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030: investment estimates to increase production of health professionals in India	3
‘She taught me’: factors consumers find important in nurse practitioner and pharmacist prescriber services	3