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Stakeholders’ perceptions of policy options to support the integration of community health workers in health systems

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2019
Background Community health workers (CHWs) are an important component of the health workforce in many countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a guideline to support the integration of CHWs into health systems.
Onyema Ajuebor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correction to: Optimizing the contributions of nursing and midwifery workforces: #Protect, #Invest, #Together

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2021
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
James Buchan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rebuilding to shape a better future: the role of young professionals in the public health workforce

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the extreme needs of the public health workforce. As societies discuss how to build up the capacity and infrastructure of their systems, it is crucial that young professionals are involved.
B. Wong   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health workforce management in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A survey of physicians in Serbia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021
Background & Aim The study describes the experiences and opinions of Serbian physicians regarding workforce management during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Materials & Methods A total of 1553 licensed physicians (65% males; average age 44.0 years) responded to ...
M. Dinić   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rheumatology and the health of the workforce [PDF]

open access: yesArthritis & Rheumatism, 2001
Health adverse behaviors and physiologic risk factors such as hypertension are proximate causes of morbidity and mortality. There are hazards to our well-being that lurk in the course of living for which the proximate causes of morbidity and mortality are but symbolic (1). These life-course hazards are aspects of our interactive and integrative worlds,
openaire   +3 more sources

The health workforce: Central to an effective response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the European Region

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021
COVID‐19 has reinforced the centrality of health workers at the core of a well performing and resilient health system. It has concomitantly exposed the risks of staffing and skills shortages and the importance of protecting the health workforce.
T. Zapata   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Success of a South-South collaboration on Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) in health: a case of Kenya and Zambia HRIS collaboration

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2019
Background Shortage of health workforce in most African countries is a major impediment to achieving health and development goals. Countries are encouraged to develop evidence-based strategies to scale up their health workforce in order to bridge the gap.
Victor Were   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

An overview of health workforce education and accreditation in Africa: implications for scaling-up capacity and quality

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2022
Background For countries to achieve universal health coverage, they need to have well-functioning and resilient health systems. Achieving this requires a sufficient number of qualified health workers and this necessitates the importance of investments in
Sunny C. Okoroafor   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Educating the Public Health Workforce [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2013
The section “Public Health Education and Promotion” of the journal “Frontiers in Public Health” is the first initiative to focus specifically upon the pedagogy pertaining to the current and future public health workforce. In Health Professionals for a New Century, an international task force chaired by Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Hiring in the substance use disorder treatment related sector during the first five years of Medicaid expansion [PDF]

open access: yesPlosOne, January 30, 2020, 2019
Effective treatment strategies exist for substance use disorder (SUD), however severe hurdles remain in ensuring adequacy of the SUD treatment (SUDT) workforce as well as improving SUDT affordability, access and stigma. Although evidence shows recent increases in SUD medication access from expanding Medicaid availability under the Affordable Care Act ...
arxiv   +1 more source

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