Journal Articles

Evidence-Based Choices of Physicians: a Comparative Analysis of Physicians Participating in Internet CME and Non-Participants

This study is a continuation of an earlier report that found online continuing medical education (CME) to be highly effective in making evidence-based decisions. [from abstract]

Delegation of GP-Home Visits to Qualified Practice Assistants: Assessment of Economic Effects in an Ambulatory Healthcare Centre

This article examines a project to address the decreasing number of general practitioners (GPs) in rural regions in Germany through the delegation of regular GP-home visits to qualified practice assistants. [adapted from abstract]

Medical Education and Training in Nepal: SWOT Analysis

The goal of this article was to analyse the impact of the medical colleges that have been set up within the last two decades by production of doctors and the effect on the health of the people. [from abstract]

Model Linking Clinical Workforce Skill Mix Planning to Health and Health Care Dynamics

This paper presents a structural map of a health system based on a synthesis of a needs-based analytic framework and a supply side framework, showing the interactive connections between its major components, which could be expanded at a later date to show the linkages between the tasks performed by a health workforce and the cadres of personnel that could supply those tasks. [adapted from author]

Monitoring the Newly Qualified Nurses in Swede: the Longitudinal Analysis of Nursing Education (LANE) Study

The LANE study aims to longitudinally examine a wide variety of individual and work-related variables related to psychological and physical health, as well as rates of employee and occupational turnover, and professional development among nursing students in the process of becoming registered nurses and entering working life. The aim of this paper is to present the LANE study, to estimate representativeness and analyse response rates over time, and also to describe common career pathways and life transitions during the first years of working life. [adapted from abstract]

Transfer of Learning to the Nursing Clinical Practice Setting

The aim of this project was to identify if there is a link between what nursing students learn in simulated clinical laboratory sessions and what they experience during their clinical placements. [from abstract]

Expanding Access to ART in South Africa: the Role of Nurse-Initiated Treatment

This article discusses the implications and issues concerning the implementation of nurse-initiated ART treatment - rather than the legal and regulatory frameworks governing nurse prescibing that dominate the current debate on these types of delivery programs. [adapted from author]

Retirement Intentions of Dentists in New South Wales, Australia

Predictions on the growing shortage of the ageing Australian dental workfoce are based on the retirement trends of previous generations. This study attempts to determine the retirement intentions of today’s older dentists. [adapted from abstract]

Practices in Community Health Toward Equity: Contributions of Brazilian Nursing

This article discusses practices in community health, supported by life quality indicators of the Brazilian population, emphasizing nursing contributions toward social justice. It presents the current situation involving inequities in health in Brazil and Latin America with regard to the economic aspects, access to and distribution of health services, as well as the scenario of education of health professionals. [adapted from abstract]

General Practitioner Workforce Planning: Assessment of Four Policy Directions

This study uses Ireland as a case study to determine the future demand and supply of general practitioners and to assess the potential impact of several possible interventions to address future shortages. [from abstract]

Analysis of Factors Influencing the Outpatient Workload at Chinese Health Centers

Although the community health service system is now established in China, the utilisation of the community health service institutions is low due to the lack of a gate-keeping role of the primary health service providers and referrals among the three-tiered health service institutions. This study focuses on the question of how to increase the utilisation of Chinese community health centres. [from abstract]

Factors Affecting Recruitment and Retention of Community Health Workers in a Newborn Care Intervention in Bangladesh

This article investigated the reasons for the high rates of community health worker attrition in Bangladesh. [adapted from abstract]

Validation of the Modified Fresno Test: Assessing Physical Therapists' Evidence Based Practice Knowledge and Skills

Health care educators need valid and reliable tools to assess evidence based practice (EBP) knowledge and skills. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a modified Fresno Test to assess EBP knowledge and skills relevant to physical therapist practice. [adapted from abstract]

Determinants of Effective Productivity among Service Workers: The Case of Nurses in Botswana

The study proposes a measure of effective productivity among service workers and seeks a model of effective productivity among nurses in Botswana. Productivity among nurses is of special significance because of their critical role in the primary health care system. [adapted from abstract]

Job Satisfaction and Its Modeling among Township Health Center Employees: A Quantitative Study in Poor Rural China

The purpose of this study was to measure job satisfaction level of township health centers employees in poor rural China and to identify relevant features in order to provide policy advice on human resource development of health service institutions in poor regions.

Network Organizations of General Practitioners: Antecedents of Formation and Consequences of Participation

This article defines the effectiveness of network forms of organization for general practitioners in Italy.

Pilot Study Evaluating the Effects of an Intervention to Enhance Culturally Appropriate Hypertension Education among Healthcare Providers in a Primary Care Setting

This pilot study evaluates how an intervention to improve hypertension care for ethnic minority patients of African descent in the Netherlands affected the attitudes and perceived competence of hypertension care providers with regard to culturally appropriate care. [adapted from abstract]

Analysis of a Survey on Young Doctors' Willingness to Work in Rural Hungary

There is not only a lack of human resources for health in Hungary, but significant inequalities are widespread, including in geographical distribution. This report, based on research carried out in 2008, deals with the willingness of young doctors to work outside Budapest. [adapted from abstract]

Emerging Opportunities for Recruiting and Retaining a Rural Health Workforce through Decentralized Health Financing Systems

This paper looks at the potential for decentralization to lead to better health workforce recruitment, performance and retention in rural areas through the creation of additional revenue for the health sector; better use of existing financial resources; and creation of financial incentives for health workers. [from introduction]

How Can Medical Schools Contribute to the Education, Recruitment and Retention of Rural Physicians in Their Region?

Developing a sufficient and sustainable rural physician workforce requires commitment and cooperation from communities, governments and medical schools. The author argues that medical education can play an important role in the recruitment and retention of rural physicians. [adapted from author]

Effective Physician Strategies in Norway's Northernmost County

Retaining physicians in remote settings can be challenging owing to the heavy workload and harsh environmental conditions and to the lack of opportunities for professional development. This study evaluated corrective measure to address the dearth of physicians in the north of Norway. [adapted from abstract]

How to Recruit and Retain Health Workers in Underserved Areas: the Senegalese Experience

This article outlines the introduction of a special contracting system to recruit health workers to improve the posting, recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas. [adapted from abstract]

Evaluated Strategies to Increase Attraction and Retention of Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas

This paper builds on earlier work assessing the evidence on effectiveness of interventions to increase access to health workers in rural and remote areas - focusing mainly on studies that evaluated interventions and their impact on the health workforce and health systems performance. [adapted from introduction]

Chilean Rural Practitioner Programme: A Multidimensional Strategy to Attract and Retain Doctors in Rural Areas

This paper explores a long-standing strategy to attract and retain doctors in rural areas in Chile: the Rural Practitioner Programme. The objectives of the study are to describe this programme for rural doctors (médicos generales de zona), to characterize its multidimensional set of incentives and to carry out a preliminary evaluation of programme outcomes. [from introduction]

Compulsory Service Programmes for Recruiting Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas: Do They Work?

This study compiled information on the numbers and types of health worker compulsory service programs in WHO countries.

Increasing Access to Health Workers in Underserved Areas: A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Results

This paper proposes a conceptual framework to guide managers, policy-makers and evaluators in the assessment of interventions to increase access to health workers in underserved areas. The framework aims to support all stages of policy development. [from introduction]

Policy Interventions that Attract Nurses to Rural Areas: a Multicountry Discrete Choice Experiment

The objective of this study was to model the relative effectiveness of different policy interventions on the recruitment of nurses to rural areas in three different countries. [from introduction]

Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda

This paper examines the extent to which health workers differ in their willingness to work in rural areas and the reasons for these differences, based on the data collected in Rwanda analysed individually and in combination with data from Ethiopia. [from introduction]

Rural Practice Preferences among Medical Students in Ghana: a Discrete Choice Experiment

This paper examines the job attributes that influence the stated preferences of fourth year medical students in Ghana for rural deprived area postings. [adapted from author]

Wanted: 2.4 Million Nurses, and That's Just in India

The author outlines the state of the nursing health workforce shortage in the developing world, its causes and impacts.