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COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care workers in Ghana: a case for targeted vaccine deployment campaigns in the global south
BACKGROUND: Health care workers (HCWs) are among the high-risk groups in contracting and dying from COVID-19. World Health Organization estimates …
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Documentation and dissemination of scientific evidence by the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program: experiences and lessons learnt, 2015–2020
BACKGROUND: During participation in Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETP) residents/fellows generate scientific evidence from the various public health projects they …
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Accreditation of private midwifery and nursing schools in Mali: a local sustainable solution to increasing the supply of qualified health workers
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health (HRH) emphasizes the importance of dynamic and effective …
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Global accreditation practices for accelerated medically trained clinicians: a view of five countries
BACKGROUND: Shortages and maldistribution of healthcare workers persist despite efforts to increase the number of practitioners. Evidence to support policy …
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Needs-led human resource planning for Sierra Leone in support of oral health
Abstract Background In Sierra Leone (SL), a low-income country in West Africa, dental care is very limited, largely private, and …
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A multimodal mentorship intervention to improve surgical quality in Tanzania’s Lake Zone: a convergent, mixed methods assessment
BACKGROUND: Safe, high-quality surgical care in many African countries is a critical need. Challenges include availability of surgical providers, improving …
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Application of the Ultra-Poverty Graduation Model in understanding community health volunteers’ preferences for socio-economic empowerment strategies to enhance retention: a qualitative study in Kilifi, Kenya
BACKGROUND: A significant shortage of healthcare workforce exists globally. To achieve Universal Healthcare coverage, governments need to enhance their community-based …
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Task-sharing to support paediatric and child health service delivery in low- and middle-income countries: current practice and a scoping review of emerging opportunities
BACKGROUND: Demographic and epidemiological changes have prompted thinking on the need to broaden the child health agenda to include care …
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Task-shifting to optimize outpatient neurological care in Zambia
OBJECTIVE: To investigate opportunities for task shifting to decongest an outpatient neurology clinic in Zambia by describing current patient flow …
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Factors affecting job choice among physician anesthesia providers in Uganda: a survey of income composition, discrete choice experiment, and implications for the decision to work rurally
BACKGROUND: One of the biggest barriers to accessing safe surgical and anesthetic care is lack of trained providers. Uganda has …
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Determinants of safety climate at primary care level in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda: a cross-sectional study across 138 selected primary healthcare facilities
BACKGROUND: Safety climate is an essential component of achieving Universal Health Coverage, with several organisational, unit or team-level, and individual …
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Job satisfaction and its associated factors among opticians in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction refers to the feeling of contentment one experiences with their job. Job satisfaction among opticians is a …
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Uganda’s response to sexual harassment in the public health sector: from “Dying Silently” to gender-transformational HRH policy
INTRODUCTION: Sexual harassment is a ubiquitous problem that prevents women's integration and retention in the workforce. Its prevalence had been …
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Characterization and distribution of medicine vendors in 2 states in Nigeria: implications for scaling health workforce and family planning services
BACKGROUND: In 2014, Nigeria issued the task-shifting/sharing policy for essential health services, which aimed to fill the human resource gap …
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Increasing nursing student interest in rural healthcare: lessons from a rural rotation program in Democratic Republic of the Congo
BACKGROUND: Many challenges exist in providing equitable access to rural healthcare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WHO …
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Assessment of training and mentoring for DR-TB care decentralization in Tanzania
INTRODUCTION: Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) care shifted from centralized to decentralized care in Tanzania in 2015. This study explored whether DR-TB …
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Task-shifting to improve asthma education for Malawian children: a qualitative analysis
BACKGROUND: Asthma education, a key component of long-term asthma management, is challenging in resource-limited settings with shortages of clinical staff. …
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Reflecting on the current scenario and forecasting the future demand for medical doctors in South Africa up to 2030: towards equal representation of women
BACKGROUND: Increasing feminization of medical professions is well-acknowledged. However, this does not always equate to equitable representation of women within …
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The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management
BACKGROUND: Despite tremendous health workforce efforts which have resulted in increases in the density of physicians, nurses and midwives from …
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Working towards universal health coverage: a qualitative study to identify strategies for improving student enrolment for the pre-service training of nurses, midwives and community health workers in Nigerian health training institutions
BACKGROUND: Student enrolment processes and practices can affect the quality of pre-service training programmes. These processes and practices may have …