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Open AccessImpacts of industrial actions, protests, strikes and lockouts by health and care workers during COVID-19 and other pandemic contexts: a systematic review
Public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs) as the COVID-19 pandemic and others that have occurred since the early 2000s put enormous pressure on health and care systems. This is being a contex...
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Open AccessImpacts for health and care workers of Covid-19 and other public health emergencies of international concern: living systematic review, meta-analysis and policy recommendations
Health and care workers (HCW) faced the double burden of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: as members of a society affected by a public health emergency and as HWC who experienced fear of becoming infected and of infec...
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Open AccessImplementation of policy and management interventions to improve health and care workforce capacity to address the COVID-19 pandemic response: a systematic review
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted pre-existing weaknesses in health and care systems and services and shortages of health and care workers (HCWs). As a result, policymakers needed to adopt measures to improve ...
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Open AccessCOVID-19-related adolescent mortality and morbidity in nineteen European countries
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents in most countries experienced a syndemic of malnutrition, obesity, deprivation, mental health problems, inequalities, and the effects of climate change. Today, other...
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Open AccessThe abiding, hidden, and pervasive centrality of the health research workforce
Research for health and development (R4HD) acknowledges that many of the determinants of health lie outside the boundaries of the health system. The size and quality of the health and care workforce (HCWF) are...
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Open AccessLeadership in HRH: remembering the future?
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Open AccessRelevant HRH leadership during public health emergencies
Inadequate leadership capacity compounds the world's workforce lack of preparedness for outbreaks of all sizes, as illustrated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Open AccessMedical faculty profile is an important determinant of student profile and future practice expectations of medical students in Angola
Angola is among one of the most deprived countries in the world in terms of medical professionals. In the past decade, the Angolan Government has invested in the expansion of faculties of medicine in the count...
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Open AccessThe relevance of educational attainments of parents of medical students for health workforce planning: data from Guiné-Bissau
In this article, we analyze data collected in the context of health workforce planning (HWFP) for Guiné-Bissau as part of the development of the third National Health Strategy, to study the relationship betwee...
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Open Access“Get us partnerships!” - a qualitative study of Angolan and Mozambican health academics’ experiences with North/South partnerships
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 focuses on North/South partnerships for sustainable development. Literature on research partnerships and capacity -building often neglects how these processes are carried ...
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Open AccessThe experience of medical training and expectations regarding future medical practice of medical students in the Cuban-supported Medical School in Timor-Leste
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the professional expectations and profile of medical students at the Cuban-supported School of General Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Scien...
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Open AccessThe rise of medical training in Portuguese speaking African countries
Medical training has shown to be strategic for strengthening health systems, especially in those countries identified to have critical shortage of human resources for health. In the past few years, several stu...
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Open AccessWhy do some physicians in Portuguese-speaking African countries work exclusively for the private sector? Findings from a mixed-methods study
Despite the growing interest in the private health sector in low- and middle-income countries, little is known about physicians working outside the public sector. The present work adopts a mixed-methods approa...
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Open AccessBrazil-Africa technical cooperation in health: what’s its relevance to the post-Busan debate on ‘aid effectiveness’?
Brazil is rapidly becoming an influential player in development cooperation, also thanks to its high-visibility health projects in Africa and Latin America. The 4th High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in B...
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Open AccessTask-shifting: experiences and opinions of health workers in Mozambique and Zambia
This paper describes the task-shifting taking place in health centres and district hospitals in Mozambique and Zambia. The objectives of this study were to identify the perceived causes and factors facilitatin...
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Open AccessWhat influences national and foreign physicians’ geographic distribution? An analysis of medical doctors’ residence location in Portugal
The debate over physicians’ geographical distribution has attracted the attention of the economic and public health literature over the last forty years. Nonetheless, it is still to date unclear what influence...
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Open AccessThe human resource for health situation in Zambia: deficit and maldistribution
Current health policy directions in Zambia are formulated in the National Health Strategic Plan. The Plan focuses on national health priorities, which include the human resources (HR) crisis. In this paper we ...
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Open AccessThe training and professional expectations of medical students in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the professional expectations of medical students during the 2007-2008 academic year at the public medical schools of Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, ...
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Open AccessProfile and professional expectations of medical students in Mozambique: a longitudinal study
This paper compares the socioeconomic profile of medical students registered at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (FM-UEM), Maputo, for the years 1998/99 and 2007/08.
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Open AccessCosting the scaling-up of human resources for health: lessons from Mozambique and Guinea Bissau
In the context of the current human resources for health (HRH) crisis, the need for comprehensive Human Resources Development Plans (HRDP) is acute, especially in resource-scarce sub-Saharan African countries....
