BACKGROUND In low- and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services. METHODS We take a labor market approach to project future health workforce demand based on an economic model based on projected economic growth, demographics, and health coverage, and using ...

conclusions findings of this study showed the importance of psychological hardiness in maintaining mental health. special attention should be paid to maintaining and improving the mental health of workers in the pars special economic energy zone. one of the main principles involved in the sustainable and integrated development of a company is healthy human resources in all aspects, including ph...

INTRODUCTION Essential Health Packages (EHP) delivery is likely to strengthen service delivery. Healthcare utilization rate is 77% for the sick. 44% and 18% who don't seek care are hindered by cost and distance respectively. The overall child mortality rate in Kenya is 121/1000. In Homabay County, child mortality rate is 91/1000, and maternal mortality rate of 583/100000. The study looked into ...

background: the family physician program and referral system considered as one of the important programs of country’s health that has been implemented since 2005.considerng that health is a spontaneous phenomenon and information in this regard should be given to individuals, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of rural people with inform...

background nearly every nation in the world faces shortages of health workers in remote areas. cameroon is no exception to this. the ministry of public health (moph) is currently considering several rural retention strategies to motivate qualified health personnel to practice in remote rural areas.   methods to better calibrate these mechanisms and to develop evidence-based retention strategies...

in today’s advanced world resulting from the improvement of technology, societies tend to encounter a large number of problems and accidents. as we know, university’s security personnel are classified as shift workers and are exposed to health disturbing factors. the aim of this study was investigation of shift work disorders among security personnel of the hospitals affiliated to shiraz univer...

background: studies show that about 90% of accidents occur because of unsafe behavior and human errors. even if workers do not have the right knowledge, attitude and behavior toward safety measures in a safe workplace, all efforts for an accident-free workplace will be in vain. this study aims to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and behavior of workers toward occupational health and s...

background: today, obesity is considered as a health problem that increases the risk of some diseases. therefore, identifying the effective factors on obesity is of great importance. shift work is one of the indicators for increased risk of obesity in society and also shift work may cause various health problems for workers in military organizations. the current study aimed to investigate the r...