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Factors contributing to motivation of volunteer community health workers in Ethiopia: the case of four woredas (districts) in Oromia and Tigray regions
BACKGROUND: The use of community health workers (CHWs) has been considered as one of the strategies to address the growing …
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Performance-based financing kick-starts motivational “feedback loop”: findings from a process evaluation in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Performance-based financing (PBF) reforms aim to directly influence health worker behavior through changes to institutional arrangements, accountability structures, and …
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Healthcare workers’ industrial action in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey of Nigerian physicians
BACKGROUND: The Nigerian health system has been plagued with numerous healthcare worker strikes (industrial action) at all levels. The purpose …
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Realities and experiences of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change: evidence from an informal urban settlement in Kisumu, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Community health workers play an important role in health service delivery and are increasingly involved in behaviour change interventions, …
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“If I had known, I would have applied”: poor communication, job dissatisfaction, and attrition of rural health workers in Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: Sierra Leone's health outcomes rank among the worst in the world. A major challenge is the shortage of primary …
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“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria
BACKGROUND: In HIV programs, mentor mothers (MMs) are women living with HIV who provide peer support for other women to …
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Factors associated with retention intentions among Isibindi child and youth care workers in South Africa: results from a national survey
BACKGROUND: Child and youth care workers (CYCWs) are a crucial and growing component of South Africa's national response to HIV …
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Advancing the science behind human resources for health: highlights from the Health Policy and Systems Research Reader on Human Resources for Health
Health workers are central to people-centred health systems, resilient economies and sustainable development. Given the rising importance of the health …
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Reflecting strategic and conforming gendered experiences of community health workers using photovoice in rural Wakiso district, Uganda
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are an important human resource in Uganda as they are the first contact of the …
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Evaluating the role of clinical officers in providing reproductive health services in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Most sub-Saharan African countries have too few reproductive health (RH) specialists, resulting in high RH-related mortality and morbidity. In …
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Gender-based analysis of factors affecting junior medical students’ career selection: addressing the shortage of surgical workforce in Rwanda
BACKGROUND: There is a strong need for expanding surgical workforce in low- and middle-income countries. However, the number of medical …
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Towards a framework for analyzing determinants of performance of community health workers in malaria prevention and control: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are an important human resource in improving coverage of and success to interventions aimed at …
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Task shifting in health service delivery from a decision and policy makers’ perspective: a case of Uganda
BACKGROUND: Documented evidence shows that task shifting has been practiced in Uganda to bridge the gaps in the health workers' …
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Supportive supervision and constructive relationships with healthcare workers support CHW performance: Use of a qualitative framework to evaluate CHW programming in Uganda
BACKGROUND: While evidence supports community health worker (CHW) capacity to improve maternal and newborn health in less-resourced countries, key implementation …
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Workforce patterns in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Côte d’Ivoire: a qualitative model
BACKGROUND: Côte d'Ivoire continues to struggle with one of the highest rates of mother-to-child HIV transmission in West Africa, previously …
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The effects of workplace respect and violence on nurses’ job satisfaction in Ghana: a cross-sectional survey
BACKGROUND: Studies have established the negative effects of workplace disrespect and violence on the personal and professional well-being of nurses. …
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Human resource for health reform in peri-urban areas: a cross-sectional study of the impact of policy interventions on healthcare workers in Epworth, Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: The need to understand how healthcare worker reform policy interventions impact health personnel in peri-urban areas is important as …
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Health system's response for physician workforce shortages and the upcoming crisis in Ethiopia: a grounded theory research
BACKGROUND: A rapid transition from severe physician workforce shortage to massive production to ensure the physician workforce demand puts the …
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Human Resource Information System implementation readiness in the Ethiopian health sector: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Health workforce information systems in low-income countries tend to be defective with poor relationship to information sources. Human Resource …
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The implication of the shortage of health workforce specialist on universal health coverage in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Globally, there is an acute shortage of human resources for health (HRH), and the greatest burden is borne by …