Human Resources for Health
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{{Infobox journal
| title = Human Resources for Health
| editor = Inês Fronteira, James Buchan, Mario Roberto Dal Poz
| discipline = Public health
| former_names = Human Resources Development Journal
| abbreviation = Hum. Resour. Health
| publisher = BioMed Central in collaboration with the World Health Organization
| country =
| frequency = Upon acceptance
| history = 1997–present
| openaccess = Yes
| license = Creative Commons Attribution
| impact = 4.5
| impact-year = 2022
| website = http://www.human-resources-health.com/
| link1 = http://www.human-resources-health.com/content
| link1-name = Online access
| link2 =https://www.who.int/hrh/hrdj/en/index.html
| link2-name = Human Resources Development Journal archives
| JSTOR =
| OCLC = 52353314
| LCCN =
| CODEN =
| ISSN = 1478-4491
| eISSN =
}}
Human Resources for Health is a peer-reviewed open-access public health journal publishing original research and case studies on issues of information, planning, production, management, and governance of the health workforce, and their links with health care delivery and health outcomes, particularly as related to global health.
The journal was established in 1997 as the Human Resources Development Journal published by the Health Manpower Development Institute of the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Human Resources Development Journal |url=https://www.who.int/hrh/hrdj/en/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041113170949/http://www.who.int/hrh/hrdj/en/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 13, 2004 |publisher=World health Organization |date= |accessdate=19 September 2013}} Since 2003, it is published by BioMed Central in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, Social Sciences Citation Index, Current contents, Scopus, CINAHL and 10 other indexing services.
The journal's Impact factor as of the year 2022 was 4.5 and its Citescore was 6.6.
Contents
The journal occasionally publishes themed collections. In 2007, the journal issued a call for papers jointly with 17 other public health journals under the theme "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers".{{cite journal |doi=10.1186/1478-4491-5-22 |title=Final call for papers: "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers" |year=2007 |last1=Shaw |first1=Daniel MP |journal=Human Resources for Health |volume=5 |pages=22|pmc=2018692 |doi-access=free }} Twenty-two articles were published in Human Resources for Health on this special theme between July 2008 and November 2009.{{Cite web |last=Mercer |first=Hugo |title=Article collections: Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers |url=http://www.human-resources-health.com/series/1478-4491-Scl |publisher=BioMed Central |work=Human Resources for Health |date=16 November 2009 |accessdate=19 September 2013}} In 2013, the journal issued a call for papers on the theme "Right Time, Right Place: Improving access to health service through effective retention and distribution of health workers."{{Cite web |last=Hoffman |first=Liz |title=Right Time, Right Place |url=http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/03/21/right-time-right-place/ |publisher=BioMed Central |date=21 March 2013 |accessdate=19 September 2013 |work=BioMed central blog |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054552/http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/03/21/right-time-right-place/ |archivedate=21 September 2013 }}
In 2016, the journal published a supplementary collection of research evidence of the relevance and effectiveness of the WHO's Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.Human Resources for Health, Volume 14 Supplement 1, "The WHO global code of practice: early evidence of its relevance and effectiveness" [http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-14-supplement-1] Accessed 11 July 2016.
In June 2019, the journal launched a thematic collection of research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing gender equality in health workforce policy and planning.{{ Cite journal | doi=10.1186/s12960-019-0380-6 |title= Research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing gender equity in health workforce policy and planning |year=2019|journal=Human Resources for Health |volume=17 |pmc=6591821 |last1= Gupta |first1= Neeru |issue= 1 |page= 46 |pmid= 31234883 |doi-access= free }} The special series included 16 research articles advancing the use of qualitative and quantitative data and methodologies through a gender equity lens across different country contexts.
References
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.human-resources-health.com/}}
Category:BioMed Central academic journals
Category:World Health Organization academic journals
Category:Academic journals established in 2003
Category:English-language journals
Category:Human resource management journals