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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between quality of work life and turnover intention of primary health care nurses in Saudi Arabia. [from abstract]

Qualified doctors in Malawi continue to leave the public sector in order to work or train abroad. This study explored the postgraduate plans of current medical students, and the extent to which this is influenced by their background. [adapted from abstract]

Quality of work life (QWL) is defined as the extent to which an employee is satisfied with personal and working needs through participating in the workplace while achieving the goals of the organization. The purpose of this study was to assess the QWL among primary health care nurses in the Jazan region, Saudi Arabia. [from abstract]

The study aims to compare two task-shifting approaches to the dispensing of anti-retroviral therapy (ART): indirectly supervised pharmacist’s assistants and nurse-based pharmaceutical care models against the standard of care which involves a pharmacist dispensing ART. [adapted from abstract]

Through research on health leadership in low-income settings, including sub-Saharan Africa, with attention to historical, political and sociocultural context, this study sought to characterize the experiences of individuals in key health-care leadership roles in sub-Saharan Africa. [adapted from abstract]

The aim of this study was to explore the factors influencing the career plans of medical students and recent graduates with regard to four policy-relevant aspects: emigration outside Malawi; working at district level; private sector employment and postgraduate specialisation. [from abstract]

This study aims to develop and validate an instrument to measure pharmacist attitudes towards collaboration with general practitioners (GPs) and a model that illustrates how pharmacist attitudes (and other variables) influence collaborative behaviour with GPs. [from abstract]

This paper describes task-shifting taking place in health centers and district hospitals in Mozambique and Zambia to identify the perceived causes and factors facilitating or impeding task-shifting, and to determine both the positive and negative consequences of task-shifting for the service users, for the services and for health workers. [adapted from abstract]

This brief oulines an initiative to implement a pre-service training strategy for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses thatis expected to strengthen in-country capacity to manage national supply chains and ensure uninterrupted access to essential health commodities. [adapted from author]

This brief describes an intervention on training pre-service trainers that has helped provide graduating biomedical students with supply chain skills and reduce long-term in-service training costs. [adapted from author]

LAPTOP is an online database of available training opportunities in supply chain management designed to help the supply chain workforce improve their skills, advance their careers and find the right course for their needs. [adapated from publisher]

This document summarizes the key finding from an assessment in eight countries to document the state of a country’s human resource capacity in supply chain management and workforce excellence efforts in public health supply chains. [adapted from author]

As part of the effort to better understand the issues, constraints, and opportunities related to workforce excellence in public health supply chain management, the People that Deliver Initiative conducted an online survey of public health logisticians working in the developing world. The findings from this online global Survey are presented in this highlights document

This paper examines the current situation for healthcare supply chains in low- and/or middle-income countries, how the public and private healthcare supply chains in these countries are organized, and how they perform using some key availability and affordability indicators. [from abstract]

The objective of this review is to survey published documentation regarding health workers’ capacity for supply chain management in developing countries to provide insight about information gaps and needs for workforce excellence. [from abstract]

This survey of the Senegalese supply chain workforce was conducted using the “Human Resources Capacity for Public Health Supply Chain Management Assessment Guide” and evaluates the supply chain organization and personnel distribution, champion systems, policies and plans, workforce development, workforce efficiency, and professionalization efforts in the public health supply chain. [adapted from author]

This data management tool is intended to help manage and organize an assessment for the human resource capacity for supply chain management for reporting and to enable standaridization for cross-country analysis. [adapted from author]

This resource contains recorded presentations from a satellite event at the XIX International AIDS Conference featuring experts in health workforce and supply chain management who discussed strengthening and professionalizing the supply chain workforce.

This extensive report gathered evidence and research to see if technology could be harnessed in transformative ways to address critical gaps in community health worker (CHW) training in Sub-Saharan Africa. It covers: the importance of CHW, current approaches to CHW training, emerging evidence and opportunities. [adapted from author]

This study aimed to analyse the community health worker (CHW) training process in Iran and how different components of training have impacted on CHW performance and satisfaction. [from abstract]

The present study was conducted at KIST Medical College, a private school in the Lalitpur district, to obtain information on student perceptions about working in rural Nepal after graduation. [adapted from abstract]

This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of burnout syndrome among primary healthcare physicians in Qatar, and to identify its determinants. [from abstract]

The aim of this study is to determine factors associated with the acceptance and uptake of voluntary HIV testing among healthcare workers in a public hospital in KwaZulu-Natal. [from abstract]

Interns are a vulnerable group of healthcare workers, cited as having the highest incidence of accidental needle-stick injuries and splashes with blood or body fluids. This study compared the incidence of occupational exposure between first- and second-year interns in South Africa to estabilsh the severity of the problem. [adapted from abstract]

This paper discusses the ethical and legal constraints on a healthcare worker who has been occupationally exposed to possible HIV infection in circumstances where the patient will not/is not in a position to give consent to be tested to establish his/her HIV status, which is a prerequisite for the healthworker to receive postexposure prophylaxis in South Africa. [adapted from abstract]