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The impact of a supportive supervision intervention on health workers in Niassa, Mozambique: a cluster-controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Regular supportive supervision is critical to retaining and motivating staff in resource-constrained settings. Previous studies have shown the particular …
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The impact of a human resource management intervention on the capacity of supervisors to support and supervise their staff at health facility level
BACKGROUND: A systematic and structured approach to the support and supervision of health workers can strengthen the human resource management …
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Non-physician clinicians in rural Africa: lessons from the Medical Licentiate programme in Zambia
BACKGROUND: Most sub-Saharan African countries struggle to make safe surgery accessible to rural populations due to a shortage of qualified …
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Harmonizing community-based health worker programs for HIV: a narrative review and analytic framework
BACKGROUND: Many countries have created community-based health worker (CHW) programs for HIV. In most of these countries, several national and …
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Cross-sectional description of nursing and midwifery pre-service education accreditation in east, central, and southern Africa in 2013
BACKGROUND: In 2013, the World Health Organization issued guidelines, Transforming and Scaling Up Health Professional Education and Training, to improve …
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An exploration of facilitators and challenges in the scale-up of a national, public sector community health worker cadre in Zambia: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: In 2010 a public sector cadre of community health workers called Community Health Assistants (CHAs) was created in Zambia …
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A comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015
BACKGROUND: Migration of health professionals has been a cause for global concern, in particular migration from African countries with a …
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A continuous quality improvement intervention to improve the effectiveness of community health workers providing care to mothers and children: a cluster randomised controlled trial in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) play key roles in delivering health programmes in many countries worldwide. CHW programmes can improve …
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The potential of task-shifting in scaling up services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a time and motion study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: In many African countries, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services are predominantly delivered by nurses. Although task-shifting …
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Measuring health workers’ motivation composition: validation of a scale based on Self-Determination Theory in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Although motivation of health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has become a topic of increasing interest by …
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Health professionals’ job satisfaction and associated factors at public health centers in West Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Human resources are vital for delivering health services, and health systems cannot function effectively without sufficient numbers of skilled, …
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Health workforce and governance: the crisis in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, several challenges have been reported within the health sector, especially in training, funding, employment, and deployment of …
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Training and deployment of medical doctors in Tanzania post-1990s health sector reforms: assessing the achievements
BACKGROUND: The shortage of a skilled health workforce is a global crisis. International efforts to combat the crisis have shown …
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Predictors of job satisfaction among nurses working in Ethiopian public hospitals, 2014: institution-based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Nurses play a pivotal role in determining the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of health care systems. Nurses' job satisfaction …
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Survival analysis to measure turnover of the medical education workforce in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Until recently, there were only a few medical schools in Ethiopia. However, currently, in response to the apparent shortage …
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Analysis of an international collaboration for capacity building of human resources for eye care: case study of the college-college VISION 2020 LINK
BACKGROUND: There is an extreme health workforce shortage in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. Shortage of eye care workers impedes …
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Beyond patient care: the impact of healthcare reform on job satisfaction in the Ethiopian public healthcare sector
While healthcare reform has been a central attention for local governments, its impact on job satisfaction is poorly understood. This …
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Can we halt health workforce deterioration in failed states? Insights from Guinea-Bissau on the nature, persistence and evolution of its HRH crisis
BACKGROUND: Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's poorest and least developed countries. Amid poverty, political turmoil and state withdrawal, its …
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A systematic review of economic evaluations of CHW interventions aimed at improving child health outcomes
Evidence of the cost-effectiveness of community health worker interventions is pertinent for decision-makers and programme planners who are turning to …
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Incentives to change: effects of performance-based financing on health workers in Zambia
BACKGROUND: Performance-based financing (PBF) has been implemented in a number of countries with the aim of transforming health systems and …