Human Resources for Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Human Resources for Health is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Real wage growth in the U.S. health workforce and the narrowing of the gender pay gap258
Primary health care coverage in Portugal: the promise of a general practitioner for all161
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 71
Achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030: investment estimates to increase production of health professionals in India55
Factors that influence scope of practice of the five largest health care professions in Australia: a scoping review47
Self-reported continuing professional development needs of medical laboratory professionals in Ghana46
Mitigating health workforce migration in Romania: policy lessons for Europe44
Strategies for maintaining and strengthening the health care workers during epidemics: a scoping review39
Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies36
The association between health workforce availability and HIV-program outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire35
Prestige of disciplines within the field of nursing: a cross-sectional study32
The influence of hospital accreditation on nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture32
Assessment of staffing needs for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses at primary care units in Brazil using Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method31
Application of workload indicators to assess the allocation of orthopedists in a national referral hospital in Brazil31
Capacity building models for managing multiple long-term conditions in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review and gap analysis29
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 China29
Online faculty development in low- and middle-income countries for health professions educators: a rapid realist review28
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 review27
Assessing competence of mid-level providers delivering primary health care in India: a clinical vignette-based study in Chhattisgarh state27
Global estimate of burnout among the public health workforce: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
Development of an impact evaluation framework and planning tool for field epidemiology training programs26
Development of the WHO eye care competency framework25
Exploring financial difficulty and help-seeking behaviour among medics in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional survey25
Ophthalmology workforce over a decade in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: demographics, distribution, and future challenges24
Love over gold and mind over matter? Identifying capabilities that preserve medical assistants’ sustainable employability24
Promotion or prevention: regulatory foci as moderators in the job demands–resources model22
Equivalence between physicians and associate clinicians in the frequency of iatrogenic urogenital fistula following cesarean section in Tanzania and Malawi22
Consistency and quality in written accreditation protocols for pediatrician training programs: a mixed-methods analysis of a global sample, and directions for improvement21
The layered crisis of the primary care medical workforce in the European region: what evidence do we need to identify causes and solutions?21
What makes community health worker models for tuberculosis active case finding work? A cross-sectional study of TB REACH projects to identify success factors for increasing case notifications20
Leveraging community health workers as vaccinators: a case study exploring the role of Malawi’s Health Surveillance Assistants in delivering routine immunization services20
Resilience, sense of danger, and reporting in wartime: a cross-sectional study of healthcare personnel in a general hospital19
Perceived risk and distress related to COVID-19 in healthcare versus non-healthcare workers of Pakistan: a cross-sectional study19
Effectiveness of a large-scale, sustained and comprehensive community health worker program in improving population health: the experience of an urban health district in South Africa19
Building health systems resilience in Central Asia through nursing and midwifery: evidence to inform policy action19
Self-sufficiency in the healthcare workforce: a system dynamics model of the domestic and foreign educated nursing and midwifery workforce in Ireland18
The roles and involvement of global health partners in the health workforce: an exploratory analysis18
Implications for health system reform, workforce recovery and rebuilding in the context of the Great Recession and COVID-19: a case study of workforce trends in Ireland 2008–202118
Doctors’ alertness, contentedness and calmness before and after night shifts: a latent profile analysis18
Rural medical workforce pathways: exploring the importance of postgraduation rural training time18
Global migration and factors influencing retention of Asian internationally educated nurses: a systematic review18
Strengthening institutions for public health education: results of an SWOT analysis from India to inform global best practices18
Malaysian Medical Students’ Career Intention (MMSCI): a cross-sectional study18
Migration of nurses and doctors: pull factors to work in Saudi Arabia18
Medical education interventions influencing physician distribution into underserved communities: a scoping review17
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 study17
Effectiveness of community health workers on identification and mobilization of persons living with epilepsy in rural Rwanda using a validated screening tool17
The impact of incentive scheme on rural healthcare workforce availability: a case study of Kazakhstan17
The first wave of COVID-19 and mental distress of physician residents in Brazil: a comparison between two cohorts17
Contested notions of challenges affecting Community Health Workers in low- and middle-income countries informed by the Silences Framework17
Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries16
Health worker education during the COVID-19 pandemic: global disruption, responses and lessons for the future—a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Conceptualizing and implementing a health workforce registry in Nigeria16
Developing a competency model for Chinese general practitioners: a mixed-methods study16
Gender gap in medicine: a call to action for Latin America15
Perspectives of physicians on risk factors for patient aggression and violence against physicians in Chinese hospitals: a Q-methodology study15
Impact of workplace violence on anxiety and sleep disturbances among Egyptian medical residents: a cross-sectional study15
Multi-country case studies on planning RMNCH services using WISN methodology: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Sultanate of Oman and Papua New Guinea14
Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review14
Analysing 3429 digital supervisory interactions between Community Health Workers in Uganda and Kenya: the development, testing and validation of an open access predictive machine learning web app14
Informal payments for modern family planning methods at public facilities in Tanzania: room for improvement14
Physician turnover in China, 2011–2021: a nationwide longitudinal study14
Assessing the contribution of immigrants to Canada’s nursing and health care support occupations: a multi-scalar analysis13
Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule13
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 child13
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 middl13
Mitigating psychological distress in healthcare workers as COVID-19 waves ensue: a repeated cross-sectional study from Jordan13
Management of burnout among the staff of primary care centres in Spain during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-213
Correction: Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada13
The faces behind vaccination: unpacking the attitudes, knowledge, and practices of staff of Cameroon’s Expanded program on Immunization13
Trends in the geographic inequality of advanced practice nursing workforce in cancer care in Japan from 1996 to 2022: a panel data analysis13
Evaluating the effectiveness of Uganda’s Supranational TB Reference Laboratory quality management system training program12
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers in Ghana: a case for targeted vaccine deployment campaigns in the global south12
Applying the workload indicators of staffing needs method in nursing health workforce planning: evidences from four hospitals in Vietnam12
Evolution of physician resources in China (2003–2021): quantity, quality, structure, and geographic distribution12
Systematic review of performance-enhancing health worker supervision approaches in low- and middle-income countries12
Performance of the Mexican nursing labor market: a repeated cross-sectional study, 2005–201912
Prevalence and predictors of workplace violence against emergency physicians in China: a cross-sectional study12
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 study12
Methylphenidate use and misuse among medical residents in Israel: a cross-sectional study12
“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 Singapore12
Reducing maternal, neonatal, and child mortality and improving quality of health care through a national task-shifting program for public hospitals in Liberia12
Evaluation of a continuing professional development strategy on COVID-19 for 10 000 health workers in Ghana: a two-pronged approach11
The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce11
The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and substance use health (MHSUH) workforce in Canada: a mixed methods study11
Evaluation of the first two Frontline cohorts of the field epidemiology training program in Guinea, West Africa11
The rules of scientific rigor: response to Shirzad and Abbassian11
Increasing the availability of health workers in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of rural pipeline programmes11
Healthcare workers knowledge of cholera multi-stranded interventions and its determining factors in North-East Nigeria: planning and policy implications11
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, Canada11
Correction: Rapid scale-up of COVID-19 training for frontline health workers in 11 African countries11
Building global capacity for COVID-19 vaccination through interactive virtual learning11
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 sett11
Correction: Informing policy with health labour market analysis to improve availability of family doctors in Tajikistan11
Physician emigration from Nigeria and the associated factors: the implications to safeguarding the Nigeria health system10
Recruiting refugees to reduce labour shortages in health care professions: experimental evidence on the potential of foreign-language outreach on social media10
Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff10
Managing uncertainty in forecasting health workforce demand using the Robust Workforce Planning Framework: the example of midwives in Belgium10
Labour precariousness in the Mexican health workforce: taking to the surface a neglected problematic issue10
Prevalence and risk of burnout among HIV service providers in South Africa and Zambia: findings from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial10
Determinants of equitable public health human resource allocation in China: a multidimensional analysis using RIF-I-OLS decomposition10
Inequalities in the distribution of the nursing workforce in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a regional analysis10
Effect of COVID-19 response work experience on turnover intention among employees of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in Seoul10
Accreditation and professional integration experiences of internationally qualified dentists working in the United Kingdom10
Tackling brain drain at Chinese CDCs: understanding job preferences of public health doctoral students using a discrete choice experiment survey10
Lessons learned from implementation of the Workload Indicator of Staffing Need (WISN) methodology: an international Delphi study of expert users10
The effectiveness of supervision strategies to improve health care provider practices in low- and middle-income countries: secondary analysis of a systematic review10
A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India10
What inhibits “speaking up” for patient safety among healthcare workers? A cross-sectional study in Malaysia10
A Delphi consensus study to determine the workload components and activity standards of dietitians in South Africa’s central and tertiary public hospitals9
Determinants of clinical nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the nutrition workforce in Vietnam’s public hospitals9
A novel approach to frontline health worker support: a case study in increasing social power among private, fee-for-service birthing attendants in rural Bangladesh9
Motivation and job satisfaction of community health workers in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods approach9
Predictors of stress among nucleic acid sampling support nurses (NASSNs) during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Response to “An overview of health workforce education and accreditation in Africa: implications for scaling-up capacity and quality”9
Gender composition in the work environment and physicians’ income from Medicare Part B fee-for-service payments: evidence from longitudinal data9
Evaluating the association of state regulation of community health workers on adoption of standard roles, skills, and qualities by employers in select states: a mixed methods study9
The prevalence of turnover intention and influencing factors among emergency physicians: a national observation9
Gender composition and wage gaps in the Canadian health policy research workforce in comparative perspective9
Anaesthetic practices at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Northern Uganda, who does what and where? A retrospective study9
Doctor of pharmacy as a career option: a cross-sectional study exploring PharmD students and practitioners expectations in Jordan9
Working life expectancy of physicians: the case of primary care physicians in Czechia9
Human resource management research in healthcare: a big data bibliometric 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
Internally versus externally trained residents and fellows hired as attendings at a large integrated healthcare system: a 20-year retrospective study9
An assessment of existing surge capacity of tertiary healthcare system of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan using workload indicators for staffing need method8
COVID-19 and human resources for health: analysis of planning, policy responses and actions in Latin American and Caribbean countries8
The importance and feasibility of hospital interventions to prevent and manage patient aggression and violence against physicians in China: a Delphi study8
Establishment of clinical pharmacy services: evidence-based information from stakeholders8
Effects of task-shifting from primary care physicians to nurses: an overview of systematic reviews8
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
Evidence for recency of practice standards for regulated health practitioners in Australia: a systematic review8
“At the mercy of some of the regulations”: the impact of the residency match and return of service requirement on the early-career decisions of international medical graduates in Canada8
Disjunctions between contractual and civil service recruitment: public sector doctors’ perspectives from two Indian states8
A review of the continuous professional development system for pharmacists8
Women in healthcare leadership: assessment of experiences, challenges, and opportunities8
Use it or lose it? Identifying reasons for the low use of psychosocial support by hospital staff8
Impact assessment of the medical practice assisting (MPA) program in general practice in the hunter New England and central coast regions of Australia7
Factors affecting the quality of working life among nurses caring for Syrian refugee camps in Jordan7
Prevalence and determinants of physical violence against doctors in Bangladeshi tertiary care hospitals7
Factors affecting child welfare and protection workers' intention to quit: a cross-sectional study from Norway7
Perceptions of Community Health Workers (CHW) on barriers and enablers to care for people with psychosis in rural Mozambique: findings of a focus group discussion study using the Capability, Opportuni7
Exploring healthcare workers’ perceptions of child health research at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi: an interpretative phenomenological analysis7
Physician assistants/associates in psychiatry: a workforce analysis7
Assessment of human resource for eye health services in Southern Ethiopia7
Inequal distribution of nursing personnel: a subnational analysis of the distribution of nurses across 58 countries7
Development and validation of a tool to assess core competencies of public health professionals in low-income settings: findings from Uttar Pradesh, India7
Hesitancy among Iranian nursing students regarding future career trajectory: a qualitative analysis7
Critical care pharmacy workforce: a 2020 re-evaluation of the UK deployment and characteristics7
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
Implementing a health labour market analysis to address health workforce gaps in a rural region of India7
Provision of injectable contraceptives by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of safety, acceptability and effectiveness6
Practices and resilience of dieticians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey in the United Arab Emirates6
WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features6
Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce6
Prevalence and pattern of migration intention of doctors undergoing training programmes in public tertiary hospitals in Ekiti State, Nigeria6
Transdisciplinarity of India’s master’s level public health programmes: evidence from admission criteria of the programmes offered since 19956
Emotional labor and burnout among nurses in Iran: core self-evaluations as mediator and moderator6
Public service motivation, public sector preference and employment of Kenyan medical doctor interns: a cross-sectional and prospective study6
Improving health workforce governance: the role of multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms and human resources for health units in ministries of health6
The roles of physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners in the National Health Service in the UK: a scoping review and narrative synthesis6
Correction: A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators of telemedicine volunteerism during the COVID-19 pandemic in India6
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 strateg6
A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia6
“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
Turnover intention among intensive care nurses and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review6
Evolution of postgraduate medical education: lessons from history to shape the future6
Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada6
How many specialists and residents in Clinical Psychology are required in the Spanish National Health System? A needs-based study6
Effect of deploying biomedical equipment technician on the functionality of medical equipment in the government hospitals of rural Nepal6
Assessment of the distribution of human and material resources for eye health in the public sector in Nampula, Mozambique6
Assessing the mediating role of motivation in the relationship between perceived management support and perceived job satisfaction among family doctors in Jiangsu province, China6
Trends and inequalities of Human Resources for Health across 15 states/territories in Malaysia during 2010–20226
What is the impact of integrated care on the job satisfaction of primary healthcare providers: a systematic review6
Factors associated with regional retention of physicians: a cross-sectional online survey of medical students and graduates in Japan6
Leadership, politics, and communication: challenges of the epidemiology workforce during emergency response5
Correction: Accreditation as a driver of interprofessional education: the Canadian experience5
Rapid assessment of pre-service midwifery education in conflict settings: findings from a cross-sectional study in Nigeria and Somalia5
Gender inequity in the medical profession: the women doctors in Spain (WOMEDS) study5
Addition of mental health to the lady health worker curriculum in Pakistan: now or never5
Factors influencing the performance of community health volunteers working within urban informal settlements in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative meta-synthesis review5
Health care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review5
Challenges facing the More Doctors program (Programa Mais Médicos) in vulnerable and peri-urban areas in Greater Brasilia, Brazil5
The association between multi-disciplinary staffing levels and mortality in acute hospitals: a systematic review5
Association between supportive supervision and performance of community health workers in India: a longitudinal multi-level analysis5
Work-related factors affecting the retention of medical officers in the preventive health sector in Sri Lanka5
The development of task sharing policy and guidelines in Kenya5
Comparison of depressive symptoms among emergency physicians and the general population in China: a cross-sectional study based on national data5
Determining staffing standards for primary care services using workload indicators of staffing needs in the Philippines5
Patterns of health workforce turnover and retention in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in remote communities of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, 2017–20195
Continuing professional development (CPD) training needs assessment for medical laboratory professionals in Ethiopia5
Equity and trends in general practitioners’ allocation in China: based on ten years of data from 2012 to 20215
Resident physician duty hours, resting times and European Working Time Directive compliance in Spain: a cross-sectional study5
The influencing factors of turnover intention among pediatric healthcare workers: a moderated mediation model5
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