Prioritize implementation research to effectively address the maternal health crisis

Implementation strategies to address community health needs.

Using systematized tacit knowledge to prioritize implementation challenges in existing maternal health programs: implications for the post MDG era

Strategic priority setting and implementation of strategies to reduce maternal mortality are key to the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2015 agenda. This article highlights the feasibility and the advantages of using a systematized tacit knowledge approach, using data from maternal health program personnel, to identify local challenges to implementing policies and programs to inform the ...

Time to effectively address hypertension in India

A need to broaden our perspective to address workers' health effectively in the 21st century.

The global world of work, like the world as a whole, has changed considerably since the first Journal of Industrial Health was issued in 1963. In the workplace, we experience repeated reorganizing , downsizing and expanding of organizations as very common nowadays 1). The experience of job insecurity has been associated with poorer physical and mental health outcomes 2) , and sustained job inse...

Appealing to altruism: an alternative strategy to address the health workforce crisis in developing countries?

BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention of health workers is a major concern. Policy initiatives emphasize financial incentives, despite mixed evidence of their effectiveness. Qualitative studies suggest that nurses especially may be more driven by altruistic motivations, but quantitative research has overlooked such values. This paper adds to the literature through characterizing the nature and d...