Journal Articles
Why Do Health Workers in Rural Tanzania Prefer Public Sector Employment
This article discusses health workers’ preferences for workplace and their perceptions and experiences of the differences in working conditions in the public health sector versus the church-run health facilities in Tanzania. The broader aim is to generate knowledge that can add to debates on health sector management in low-income contexts. [from abstract]
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Using the Workload Indicator of Staffing Needs (WISN) Methodology to Assess Work Pressure among the Nursing Staff of Lacor Hospital
This paper demonstrates the use of the workload indicator of staffing needs methodology in determining staffing requirements for the nursing staff in a hospital setting. It shows how the results can be used to assess overstaffing and understaffing as well as determine the work pressure among the different categories of nurses thus providing a basis for effective nurse redistribution to exploit efficiency gains without compromising the quality of services. [from abstract]
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Patient Safety, Satisfaction, and Quality of Hospital Care: Cross Sectional Surveys of Nurses and Patients in 12 Countries in Europe and the United States
This researched aimed to determine whether hospitals with a good organisation of care (such as improved nurse staffing and work environments) can affect patient care and nurse workforce stability in European countries. [from abstract]
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Predicting the Demand of Physician Workforce: An International Model Based on "Crowd Behaviors"
To calculate an appropriate number of Physician Density (PD) for a specific country, this study was designed to create a PD prediction model, based on health-related data from many countries. [from abstract]
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Evalutation of Physicians' Professional Performance: An Iterative Development and Validation Study of Multisource Feedback Instruments
There is a global need to assess physicians’ professional performance in actual clinical practice. This study focuses on the reliability and validity, the influences of some sociodemographic biasing factors, associations between self and other evaluations, and the number of evaluations needed for reliable assessment of a physician based on the three instruments used for the multisource assessment of physicians’ professional performance in the Netherlands. [from abstract]
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Evaluation of Primary Care Midwifery in the Netherlands: Design and Rationale of a Dynamic Cohort Study (DELIVER)
This paper describes the research design and methodology of the multicenter, multidisciplinary study evaluating the quality and provision of primary midwifery care. [adapted from abstract]
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eLearning Reproductive Health Module to Support Improved Student Learning and Interaction: A Prospective Interventional Study at a Medical School in Egypt
This study aimed to evaluate students’ learning outcomes from a redesigned eLearning version of the reproductive health section of a public health course, as measured by improved knowledge acquisition and opinions, and to assess e-course utilization. [adapted from abstract]
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Developing an Online Learning Community for Mental Health Professionals and Service Users: A Discursive Analysis
This article reports on a three week-long program of collaborative learning courses, in which 19 mental health professionals and 12 mental health service users participated. Data were analysed to consider the ways in which participants interacted, and how this contributed to the goal of online learning about using internet technologies for mental health practice. [adapted from abstract]
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ACS HPRI: Shaping Surgical Workforce Policy through Evidence-Based Analyses
This article describes the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Health Policy Research Institute’s (HPRI) role in collecting, analyzing and disseminating information about the surgical workforc in the United States, as suggests it as a possible model to assist in government surgical workforce planning. [adapted from author]
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Survey of Sub-Saharan African Medical Schools
This survey is a descriptive study of Sub-Saharan African medical schools to increase the level of understanding and expand the baseline data on medical schools in the region. [adapted from abstract]
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Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids
In this article, the importance of health worker occupational exposure to blood and body fluids and the basic concepts of exposure prevention and management are reviewed. [from abstract]
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Knowledge, Awareness and Compliance with Universal Precautions among Health Care Workers at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica
This research aimed to assess knowledge, awareness and compliance of universal precautions for prevention and transmission of blood-borne pathogens among health care workers at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica. [adapted from abstract]
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Sharps Injuries among Nurses in a Thai Regional Hospital: Prevalence and Risk Factors
The objective of this researach was to discover the prevalence of sharps injuries among nurses in a regional hospital in Thailand and to identify factors associated with these injuries. [from abstract]
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Precautions for Health Care Workers to Avoid Hepatitis B and C Virus Infection
Despite many publications about programs and strategies to prevent transmission, hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections remain major public health issue. This review looks at aspects of epidemiology, prevention, risk factors, economy, knowledge, attitudes, practice, and ethics of HBV and HCV management that affect health care workers. [from abstract]
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Evaluating a Streamlined Clinical Tool and Educational Outreach Intervention for Health Care Workers in Malawi: The PALM PLUS Case Study
This research evaluated the PALM PLUS (Practical Approach to Lung Health and HIV/AIDS in Malawi), a training and job-aid intervention designed to simplify and integrate existing Malawian national guidelines into a single, simple, user-friendly guideline for mid-level health care workers. [from abstract]
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Collaboration between Infection Control and Occupational Health in Three Continents: A Success Story with International Impact
This article describes innovative participatory paradigm designed to protect the health and safety of patients and health workers though a partnership between infection control and occupational health professionals. [from author]
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Rural Mental Health Workforce Difficulties: A Management Perspective
This study sought to contribute to the development of a more sustainable and effective regional mental health workforce by complementing earlier research on common factors in health workforce difficulties with those of leading administrators, managers and senior clinicians in the field. [from abstract]
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Human Resources for Health Care Delivery in Tanzania: A Multifaceted Problem
This study documented staffing levels and productivity in peripheral health facilities in southern Tanzania. [from abstract]
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Clinical Decision-Making of Rural Novice Nurses
Because nurses are often the first to triage and begin treatment, especially in rural areas, an understanding of how they make decisions in patient care is important. The purpose of this study was to explore the decision-making experiences of the rural novice nurse. [from author]
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Non-State Providers, the State, and Health in Post-Conflict Fragile States
This contribution looks at some of the roles of non-state providers (NSPs) in providing health services in fragile states that are coming out of conflict, and the relationships of NSPs with state agencies. [from author]
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Nurse Staffing, Direct Nursing Care Hours and Patient Mortality in Taiwan: The Logitudinal Analysis of Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcome Study
This study aimed to provide an overview of the research which has clarified the relationship between nurse staffing and patient mortality of acute care hospital wards under a universal health insurance system and attempted to provide explanations for some of the phenomena that are unique in Taiwan. [from abstract]
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Ghana: Feasibility of a Faith-Based Organizational Approach
This study examined the feasibility of using community health workers to implement cardiovascular disease prevention programs within faith-based organizations in Accra, Ghana. [from abstract]
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Impact of Change in a Doctor's Job Position: A Five-Year Cohort Study of Job Satisfaction among Norwegian Doctors
this prospective study explored the course of job satisfaction in a cohort of Norwegian doctors over a five-year period to determine the overall course of job satisfaction over the period, differences between job positions, and whether changes in job satisfaction was associated with a change in job position. [adapted from author]
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Development of a Lay Health Worker Delivered Collaborative Community Based Intervention for People with Schizophrenia in India
This paper describes a systematically developed intervention for a lay health worker delivered, community-based intervention for schizophrenia care in three sites in India. [adapted from abstract]
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HIV Management by Nurse Prescribers Compared with Doctors at a Paediatric Centre in Gaborone, Botswana
The objective of this study was to compare compliance with national paediatric HIV treatment guidelines between nurse prescribers and doctors at a paediatric referral centre in Gaborone, Botswana. [from author]
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Rural Origin Plus a Rural Clinical School Placement is a Significant Predictor of Medical Students' Intentions to Practice Rurally: A Multi-University Study
The aim of this study is to identify and assess factors affecting preference for future rural practice among medical students participating in the Australian Rural Clinical Schools Program. [from abstract]
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Human Resources for Health Situation in Zambia: Deficit and Maldistribution
This paper describes the way the HRH establishment is distributed in the different provinces of Zambia, with a view to assess the dimension of shortages and of imbalances in the distribution of health workers by province and by level of care. [from introduction]
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Career Intentions of Medical Students Trained in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries
This study investigated the career intentions of graduating students attending medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa to identify interventions which may improve retention of African physicians in their country of training or origin. [from abstract]
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Using Staffing Ratios for Workforce Planing: Evidence on Nine Allied Health Professions
The aim of this study was to identify workforce ratios in nine allied health professions and to identify whether these measures are useful for planning allied health workforce requirements. [from abstract]
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Lay Health Worker Attrition: Important but Often Ignored
This research aims to answer concerns about the magnitude, determinants and successful ways of reducing lay health worker attrition in health programs. [adapted from abstract]
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