Human Resources for Health

This article is about the medical journal. For the field of human resources in the health care sector, see Health human resources.
Human Resources for Health
DisciplinePublic health
LanguageEnglish
Edited byInês Fronteira, James Buchan, Mario Roberto Dal Poz
Publication details
Former name(s)
Human Resources Development Journal
History1997–present
Publisher
BioMed Central in collaboration with the World Health Organization
FrequencyUpon acceptance
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution
4.5 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Hum. Resour. Health
Indexing
ISSN1478-4491
OCLC no.52353314
Links

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.[1] 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".[2] Twenty-two articles were published in Human Resources for Health on this special theme between July 2008 and November 2009.[3] 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."[4]

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.[5]

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.[6] 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

  1. ^ "Human Resources Development Journal". World health Organization. Archived from the original on November 13, 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  2. ^ Shaw, Daniel MP (2007). "Final call for papers: "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers"". Human Resources for Health. 5: 22. doi:10.1186/1478-4491-5-22. PMC 2018692.
  3. ^ Mercer, Hugo (16 November 2009). "Article collections: Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers". Human Resources for Health. BioMed Central. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  4. ^ Hoffman, Liz (21 March 2013). "Right Time, Right Place". BioMed central blog. BioMed Central. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  5. ^ Human Resources for Health, Volume 14 Supplement 1, "The WHO global code of practice: early evidence of its relevance and effectiveness" [1] Accessed 11 July 2016.
  6. ^ Gupta, Neeru (2019). "Research to support evidence-informed decisions on optimizing gender equity in health workforce policy and planning". Human Resources for Health. 17 (1): 46. doi:10.1186/s12960-019-0380-6. PMC 6591821. PMID 31234883.