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Human resources for health in six healthcare arenas under stress: a qualitative study

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, March 2015
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Title
Human resources for health in six healthcare arenas under stress: a qualitative study
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Human Resources for Health, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12960-015-0005-7
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Jo Durham, Enrico Pavignani, Mark Beesley, Peter S Hill

Abstract

Research on "human resources for health" (HRH) typically focuses on the public health subsector, despite the World Health Organization's inclusive definition to the contrary. This qualitative research examines the profile of HRH in six conflict-affected contexts where the public health subsector does not dominate healthcare service provision and HRH is a less coherent and cohesive entity: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Haiti, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Somalia. The study uses a multiple-country qualitative research design including documentary analysis and key informant interviews undertaken between 2010 and 2012. The documentary analysis included peer-reviewed articles, books, unpublished research and evaluations and donor and non-government organisation reviews. A common thematic guide, informed by this analysis, was used to undertake key informant interviews. Informants thought able to provide some insight into the research questions were identified from ministry of health organograms, and from listings of donors and non-government organisations. Local informants outside the familiar structures were also contacted. In CAR, 74 were interviewed; in Somalia 25; . in Haiti, 45; in Afghanistan, 41; in DR Congo, 32; and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 30. In addition, peer review was sought on the initial country reports. The study discovered, in each healthcare arena investigated, a crowded HRH space with a wide range of public, private, formal and informal providers of varying levels of competence and a diverse richness of initiatives, shaped by the easy commodification of health and an unregulated market. The weak regulatory framework and capacity to regulate, combined with limited information regarding those not on the state payroll, allowed non-state providers to flourish, if not materially then at least numerically. When examining HRH, a reliance on information provided by the state health sector can only provide a partial and inadequate representation of reality. For policy-makers and planners in disrupted contexts to begin to appreciate fully current and potential HRH, there is a need to study the workforce using conceptual tools that reflect the situation on the ground, rather than idealised patterns generated by incomplete inventories and unrealistic standards.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 118 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 19%
Researcher 21 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 31 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 26%
Social Sciences 19 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 5%
Unspecified 3 3%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 33 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 30 August 2019.
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