background and objectives: health human resources is the major asset of the health system. the status of human resources in upstream and regulatory health organizations can exert high impact on the effectiveness of health policies and the performance of health system. this study, hence, was designed to explore the possible area of human resource damage to the employees of the iranian ministry o...

objective: to understand the knowledge and services of informal providers and to explore their role in addressing the human resource gap in uttar pradesh, india, within the context of maternal health. materials and methods: the study is exploratory in nature, conducted in four blocks of four districts of uttar pradesh state, india. semi-structured interviews were conducted with 114 informal pro...

El mundo enfrenta una crisis de recursos humanos en salud, la cual afecta particularmente a países en vías de desarrollo. De acuerdo al Informe sobre la salud en el mundo del 2006 (1), existe un grupo de 57 países, la mayoría de ellos africanos, con deficiencias críticas en la cantidad de personal de salud. El Perú posee el triste privilegio de ser el único país sudamericano considerado en este...

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responding to critical shortages of physicians, most sub-saharan countries have scaled up training of nonphysician clinicians (npcs), resulting in a gradual but decisive shift to npcs as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery. this development should unfold in parallel with strategic rethinking about the role of physicians and with innovations in physician education and in-service training. in ...

Background and Objectives: High performance research activity in the health domain is crucial to overcoming ever-growing health-related problems. Despite availability of data sources, only a limited number of researchers use these data to derive health-related information. Thus, the present study aimed at exploring the barriers to research promotion as perceived by the university health researc...