Collections and calls for papers

Approaches to increasing the effectiveness of national Community Health Worker programs

"National community health worker (CHW) programs are a critical resource for improving the health populations, especially in low- and middle-income countries. However, the challenge of developing and operati...

  • Henry Perry
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Closed
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Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 – A Five-Year Check-In

In May 2016, the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 (the “Global Strategy” was adopted by the 69th World Health Assembly. The Global Strategy identified a projected shortfall of 18...

  • Ayat Abu Agla
  • Jim Campbell
  • Michelle McIsaac
Submission status
Closed
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Health workforce in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Mario Roberto Dal Poz
  • Paulo Ferrinho
Submission status
Closed
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Health workforce: Accreditation of education and regulation of practice

The global health workforce faces a number of challenges requiring action at national and international level. In addition to the low density of health workers in various occupations and sub-optimal distribu...

  • William Burdick
  • Ibadat Dhillon
Submission status
Closed
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Human Resources for Health and Governance

This issue has been made possible with support from the Directorate General for International Cooperation of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

  • Dr Marjolein Dieleman
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Closed
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Improving the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of health worker in-service training: Closing the gaps between evidence, practice and outcomes

Scaling up health services to meet Universal Health Coverage and post-2015 agenda goals will require continued investment in in-service training (IST) to build the capability of health workers to provide qua...

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Closed
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Investment in human resources for health: impact on health outcomes and beyond

Edited by: Mr Jim Campbell, Dr. Giorgio Cometto, Prof Mario Roberto Dal Poz Human Resources for Health, in collaboration with the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Health Organization, is please...

  • Mr Jim Campbell
  • Dr. Giorgio Cometto
  • Prof Mario Roberto Dal Poz
Submission status
Closed
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Leadership and management in public health

Leadership and management in public health

  • Dr Manuel M. Dayrit
Submission status
Closed
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Research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing gender equity in health workforce policy and planning

This thematic series in Human Resources for Health explores how enhanced research, monitoring, and evaluation of health workforce policy and planning options can help to optimize gender equity within and acr...

  • Neeru Gupta
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Closed
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Research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing the contributions of nursing and midwifery workforces

The WHO designated the year 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife”, to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale was an early proponent of the use of statistical analy...

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Closed
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Right Time, Right Place: Improving access to health service through effective retention and distribution of health workers

Right Time, Right Place: Improving access to health service through effective retention and distribution of health workers Health systems around the world are looking to improve access to health services and...

  • Prof James Buchan
Submission status
Closed
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Spatial inequality, infectious diseases and disease control

A cross-journal collection covering spatial inequality, infectious diseases and disease control.

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Closed
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This is a cross journal collection
Supporting and strengthening the role of close-to-community (CTC) providers for health system development

Close-to-community (CTC) providers are health workers who carry out promotional, preventive and/or curative health services and who are often the first point of contact at community level in countries in the...

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Closed
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The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce

"Human Resources for Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on The abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce. Research for health and development (R4HD) acknowle...

  • Paulo Ferrinho
  • Michael Makanga
  • Shabnum Sarfraz
Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
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The primary care medical workforce crisis in the European region: a call for evidence and analysis papers on causes, impacts, and solutions

Human Resources for Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on The primary care medical workforce crisis in the European region: a call for evidence and analysis papers on causes, impacts, and so...

  • Giuliano Russo
  • Julian Perelman
  • Tomas Zapata
Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
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Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers

Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers

  • Hugo Mercer
Submission status
Closed
Articles available