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A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, March 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#48 of 1,261)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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2 policy sources
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1 Wikipedia page
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Title
A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa
Published in
Human Resources for Health, March 2010
DOI 10.1186/1478-4491-8-8
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mike Callaghan, Nathan Ford, Helen Schneider

Abstract

Shortages of human resources for health (HRH) have severely hampered the rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Current rollout models are hospital- and physician-intensive. Task shifting, or delegating tasks performed by physicians to staff with lower-level qualifications, is considered a means of expanding rollout in resource-poor or HRH-limited settings.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 768 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 8 1%
United States 6 <1%
Kenya 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 736 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 157 20%
Researcher 118 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 84 11%
Student > Postgraduate 57 7%
Student > Bachelor 52 7%
Other 195 25%
Unknown 105 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 253 33%
Social Sciences 106 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 97 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 34 4%
Psychology 24 3%
Other 119 15%
Unknown 135 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2023.
All research outputs
#799,349
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#48
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,236
of 103,451 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#1
of 6 outputs
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