Human Resources for Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Human Resources for Health is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Are doctors from the complementary and alternative systems of medicine less equal than their allopathic counterparts? Public sector doctors’ experiences of recruitment from two Indian states298
Self-reported continuing professional development needs of medical laboratory professionals in Ghana75
Activity-based planning of primary care utilization in a model of prospective demand for workforce72
Primary health care coverage in Portugal: the promise of a general practitioner for all61
Strategies for maintaining and strengthening the health care workers during epidemics: a scoping review59
The professionalisation paradox: retaining the health advantages of community-based providers in task shifting and task sharing initiatives52
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 50
Achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030: investment estimates to increase production of health professionals in India50
Mitigating health workforce migration in Romania: policy lessons for Europe49
Factors that influence scope of practice of the five largest health care professions in Australia: a scoping review48
Feasibility and effectiveness of the mindfulness-based stress reduction programs on relieving burnout of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot randomized controlled trial in China42
Prestige of disciplines within the field of nursing: a cross-sectional study41
From implementation to learning: a process-oriented framework to evaluate innovative global health capacity building in fragile and conflict-affected settings39
The influence of hospital accreditation on nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture39
Global estimate of burnout among the public health workforce: a systematic review and meta-analysis32
Capacity building models for managing multiple long-term conditions in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review and gap analysis32
Effectiveness of interventions by non-professional community-level workers or family caregivers to improve outcomes for physical impairments or disabilities in low resource settings: systematic review32
Equivalence between physicians and associate clinicians in the frequency of iatrogenic urogenital fistula following cesarean section in Tanzania and Malawi27
Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies27
Resilience, sense of danger, and reporting in wartime: a cross-sectional study of healthcare personnel in a general hospital26
Mismatch between registration possibilities and patients’ local health needs, a simulated patient survey in the Paris metropolitan area25
Development of an impact evaluation framework and planning tool for field epidemiology training programs25
Ophthalmology workforce over a decade in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: demographics, distribution, and future challenges24
Consistency and quality in written accreditation protocols for pediatrician training programs: a mixed-methods analysis of a global sample, and directions for improvement24
Promotion or prevention: regulatory foci as moderators in the job demands–resources model24
Development of the WHO eye care competency framework23
Leveraging community health workers as vaccinators: a case study exploring the role of Malawi’s Health Surveillance Assistants in delivering routine immunization services22
Exploring financial difficulty and help-seeking behaviour among medics in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional survey22
The layered crisis of the primary care medical workforce in the European region: what evidence do we need to identify causes and solutions?21
Doctors’ alertness, contentedness and calmness before and after night shifts: a latent profile analysis21
Building health systems resilience in Central Asia through nursing and midwifery: evidence to inform policy action21
Love over gold and mind over matter? Identifying capabilities that preserve medical assistants’ sustainable employability21
The roles and involvement of global health partners in the health workforce: an exploratory analysis20
Area remoteness and the distribution and attrition of the rural health workforce in Australia20
Exploring perceptions of work motivation through the experiences of healthcare professionals who provided end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic (PRECA-C project): a qualitative study20
Self-sufficiency in the healthcare workforce: a system dynamics model of the domestic and foreign educated nursing and midwifery workforce in Ireland20
A scoping review of research capability building: impact on health workforce attraction and retention in rural and remote Australia20
Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia19
Associations between medical education reforms and trends in the ophthalmology workforce and cataract surgery performance in Kazakhstan19
Malaysian Medical Students’ Career Intention (MMSCI): a cross-sectional study19
Rural medical workforce pathways: exploring the importance of postgraduation rural training time19
The impact of incentive scheme on rural healthcare workforce availability: a case study of Kazakhstan19
Global migration and factors influencing retention of Asian internationally educated nurses: a systematic review18
The first wave of COVID-19 and mental distress of physician residents in Brazil: a comparison between two cohorts18
Neonatal unit human resources: coverage for six cadres and trends for staff-to-baby ratios in 65 neonatal units implementing with NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania18
The determinants of health workers’ job satisfaction in the Saudi Arabian health facilities18
Gender gap in medicine: a call to action for Latin America17
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study17
Causes and effects of hospital nursing shortages to consider potential feedback effects: an umbrella review17
Developing a competency model for Chinese general practitioners: a mixed-methods study17
Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future—a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Perspectives of physicians on risk factors for patient aggression and violence against physicians in Chinese hospitals: a Q-methodology study16
A qualitative study of the experiences of Syrian physicians in Türkiye: the need to strengthen integration16
Increasing the number of midwives is necessary but not sufficient: using global data to support the case for investment in both midwife availability and the enabling work environment in low- and middl16
HRM issues and practices in internal stakeholder management for healthcare: a bibliometric and systematic literature analysis16
Physician turnover in China, 2011–2021: a nationwide longitudinal study16
Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review15
Trends in the geographic inequality of advanced practice nursing workforce in cancer care in Japan from 1996 to 2022: a panel data analysis15
Transforming healthcare: evaluating a decade of postgraduate training at the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons15
Correction: Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada15
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule15
Methylphenidate use and misuse among medical residents in Israel: a cross-sectional study14
Factors influencing work performance and prospective mobile health applications among village health support groups: a formative study for i-MoMCARE development to enhance maternal, newborn, and child14
“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 Singapore14
Evolution of physician resources in China (2003–2021): quantity, quality, structure, and geographic distribution14
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis14
Evaluating the effectiveness of Uganda’s Supranational TB Reference Laboratory quality management system training program14
Development and validation of a competency-based assessment tool for public health workers in Shanghai community health centers: a population-based study14
Human and financial resource needs for universal access to WHO-PEN interventions for diabetes and hypertension care in Eswatini: results from a time-and-motion and bottom-up costing study14
The faces behind vaccination: unpacking the attitudes, knowledge, and practices of staff of Cameroon’s Expanded program on Immunization14
Prevalence and predictors of workplace violence against emergency physicians in China: a cross-sectional study14
Future doctors, future scholars: factors influencing China-educated international medical students’ career intentions in primary care and academic medicine14
The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce13
Increasing the ethnic diversity of senior leadership within the English National Health Service: using an artificial intelligence approach to evaluate inclusive recruitment strategies in hospital sett13
Characterizing worker compensation claims in long-term care and examining the association between facility characteristics and severe injury: a repeated cross-sectional study from Alberta, Canada13
Job satisfaction among postgraduate dental students and its contributing factors: a cross-sectional analysis13
Reducing maternal, neonatal, and child mortality and improving quality of health care through a national task-shifting program for public hospitals in Liberia13
Correction: Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries13
Healthcare workers knowledge of cholera multi-stranded interventions and its determining factors in North-East Nigeria: planning and policy implications12
Work experiences, burnout, and psychological distress of frontline health professionals during the COVID-19 omicron epidemic: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Southern China12
Effect of COVID-19 response work experience on turnover intention among employees of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in Seoul12
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes12
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) workforce in Canada: a mixed methods study12
What inhibits “speaking up” for patient safety among healthcare workers? A cross-sectional study in Malaysia12
Evaluation of a continuing professional development strategy on COVID-19 for 10 000 health workers in Ghana: a two-pronged approach12
Inequalities in the distribution of the nursing workforce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a regional analysis11
Labour precariousness in the Mexican health workforce: taking to the surface a neglected problematic issue11
Managing uncertainty in forecasting health workforce demand using the Robust Workforce Planning Framework: the example of midwives in Belgium11
Building virtual real-time trauma care learning during armed conflict: the case of ECHO in Ukraine11
Correction: Informing policy with health labour market analysis to improve availability of family doctors in Tajikistan11
Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff11
Career trajectories of master of public health graduates from South African universities11
A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India11
Physician emigration from Nigeria and the associated factors: the implications to safeguarding the Nigeria health system11
Prevalence and risk of burnout among HIV service providers in South Africa and Zambia: findings from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial10
Anaesthetic practices at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Northern Uganda, who does what and where? A retrospective study10
Determinants of clinical nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the nutrition workforce in Vietnam’s public hospitals10
Recruiting refugees to reduce labour shortages in health care professions: experimental evidence on the potential of foreign-language outreach on social media10
A novel approach to frontline health worker support: a case study in increasing social power among private, fee-for-service birthing attendants in rural Bangladesh10
Gender composition in the work environment and physicians’ income from Medicare Part B fee-for-service payments: evidence from longitudinal data10
Determinants of equitable public health human resource allocation in China: a multidimensional analysis using RIF-I-OLS decomposition10
Response to “An overview of health workforce education and accreditation in Africa: implications for scaling-up capacity and quality”10
Human resource management research in healthcare: a big data bibliometric study10
A Delphi consensus study to determine the workload components and activity standards of dietitians in South Africa’s central and tertiary public hospitals9
Establishment of clinical pharmacy services: evidence-based information from stakeholders9
Internally versus externally trained residents and fellows hired as attendings at a large integrated healthcare system: a 20-year retrospective study9
Impacts for health and care workers of Covid-19 and other public health emergencies of international concern: living systematic review, meta-analysis and policy recommendations9
Motivation and job satisfaction of community health workers in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods approach9
Effects of task-shifting from primary care physicians to nurses: an overview of systematic reviews9
Predictors of stress among nucleic acid sampling support nurses (NASSNs) during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Working life expectancy of physicians: the case of primary care physicians in Czechia9
Doctor of pharmacy as a career option: a cross-sectional study exploring PharmD students and practitioners expectations in Jordan9
Field Epidemiology Training Program global evaluation: application of graduates’ skills9
Use it or lose it? Identifying reasons for the low use of psychosocial support by hospital staff8
Evidence for recency of practice standards for regulated health practitioners in Australia: a systematic review8
Disjunctions between contractual and civil service recruitment: public sector doctors’ perspectives from two Indian states8
Gender composition and wage gaps in the Canadian health policy research workforce in comparative perspective8
The importance and feasibility of hospital interventions to prevent and manage patient aggression and violence against physicians in China: a Delphi study8
The transition of human resources for health information systems from the MDGs into the SDGs and the post-pandemic era: reviewing the evidence from 2000 to 20228
Rehabilitation in primary health care: workforce and pathways toward 20308
Women in healthcare leadership: assessment of experiences, challenges, and opportunities8
COVID-19 and human resources for health: analysis of planning, policy responses and actions in Latin American and Caribbean countries8
The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis7
Demand–capacity estimation using queueing theory: application to hospital resource planning in the 2023 Türkiye earthquake7
Hesitancy among Iranian nursing students regarding future career trajectory: a qualitative analysis7
Assessment of human resource for eye health services in Southern Ethiopia7
Factors associated with regional retention of physicians: a cross-sectional online survey of medical students and graduates in Japan7
Exploring healthcare workers’ perceptions of child health research at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi: an interpretative phenomenological analysis7
Prevalence and determinants of physical violence against doctors in Bangladeshi tertiary care hospitals7
Physician assistants/associates in psychiatry: a workforce analysis7
Factors affecting the quality of working life among nurses caring for Syrian refugee camps in Jordan7
Workplace violence and burnout among emergency medical service workers and nurses in Germany: a cross-sectional study7
Development and validation of a tool to assess core competencies of public health professionals in low-income settings: findings from Uttar Pradesh, India7
Impact assessment of the medical practice assisting (MPA) program in general practice in the hunter New England and central coast regions of Australia7
Profile of health care workers in a context of instability: a cross-sectional study of four rural health zones in eastern DR Congo (lessons learned)7
Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada7
Implementing a health labour market analysis to address health workforce gaps in a rural region of India7
Public service motivation, public sector preference and employment of Kenyan medical doctor interns: a cross-sectional and prospective study6
Emotional labor and burnout among nurses in Iran: core self-evaluations as mediator and moderator6
Prevalence and pattern of migration intention of doctors undergoing training programmes in public tertiary hospitals in Ekiti State, Nigeria6
Assessment of the distribution of human and material resources for eye health in the public sector in Nampula, Mozambique6
Factors affecting child welfare and protection workers' intention to quit: a cross-sectional study from Norway6
Trends and inequalities of Human Resources for Health across 15 states/territories in Malaysia during 2010–20226
How many specialists and residents in Clinical Psychology are required in the Spanish National Health System? A needs-based study6
Turnover intention among intensive care nurses and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review6
Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce6
Evolution of postgraduate medical education: lessons from history to shape the future6
Correction: A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators of telemedicine volunteerism during the COVID-19 pandemic in India6
“We are the ones who will have to make the change”: Cuban health cooperation and the integration of Cuban medical graduates into practice in the Pacific6
Provision of injectable contraceptives by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of safety, acceptability and effectiveness6
What is the impact of integrated care on the job satisfaction of primary healthcare providers: a systematic review6
Critical care pharmacy workforce: a 2020 re-evaluation of the UK deployment and characteristics6
Gender inequity in the medical profession: the women doctors in Spain (WOMEDS) study5
Digitalized human resources for health information systems in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review5
Work-related factors affecting the retention of medical officers in the preventive health sector in Sri Lanka5
Assessing health system and service delivery capacity in responding to changing disease patterns in the Philippines: an analysis using national health information system longitudinal data5
Developing a Global Strategy for strengthening the occupational therapy workforce: a two-phased mixed-methods consultation of country representatives shows the need for clarifying task-sharing strateg5
Resident physician duty hours, resting times and European Working Time Directive compliance in Spain: a cross-sectional study5
A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia5
The development of task sharing policy and guidelines in Kenya5
The influencing factors of turnover intention among pediatric healthcare workers: a moderated mediation model5
Assessing the mediating role of motivation in the relationship between perceived management support and perceived job satisfaction among family doctors in Jiangsu province, China5
Addition of mental health to the lady health worker curriculum in Pakistan: now or never5
Competency gaps and training needs in infectious disease control among public health professionals: a nationwide survey in China5
Continuing professional development (CPD) training needs assessment for medical laboratory professionals in Ethiopia5
Establishing a transdisciplinary competency framework for interdisciplinary case management practice in long-term care: a participatory Delphi study4
Novel approaches to empowering health workforce: a scoping review4
Optimizing the health workforce for Universal Health Coverage: a framework for analysis and action4
The role of calling in medical students’ migration intention4
Deconcentrating regulation in low- and middle-income country health systems: a proposed ambidextrous solution to problems with professional regulation for doctors and nurses in Kenya and Uganda4
Too many, too soon? Challenges in medical school expansion in the United Kingdom4
The association between multi-disciplinary staffing levels and mortality in acute hospitals: a systematic review4
Comparison of depressive symptoms among emergency physicians and the general population in China: a cross-sectional study based on national data4
Equity and trends in general practitioners’ allocation in China: based on ten years of data from 2012 to 20214
Scaling severe acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers: a geospatial coverage analysis in rural Mali4
How to ensure an appropriate oral health workforce? Modelling future scenarios for the Netherlands4
Pre-service medical education course completion and drop-out rates4
Nurses’ job preferences for working in deprived areas in Tehran: a discrete choice experiment4
Patterns of health workforce turnover and retention in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in remote communities of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, 2017–20194
Rapid assessment of pre-service midwifery education in conflict settings: findings from a cross-sectional study in Nigeria and Somalia4
A novel approach to estimate the impact of health workforce investments on health outcomes through increased coverage of HIV, TB and malaria services4
Correction: Contextualising the job demands–resources model: a cross-sectional study of the psychosocial work environment across different healthcare professions4
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 consequences4
The impact of comprehensive training on safe cesarean delivery on non-physician surgeons’ knowledge in Tigray, Ethiopia: a pre- and post-test embedded mixed-methods study4
Primary care providers’ preferences for pay-for-performance programs: a discrete choice experiment study in Shandong China4
Improving allocative efficiency from network consolidation: a solution for the health workforce shortage4
Correction: Accreditation as a driver of interprofessional education: the Canadian experience4
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