Where there are not enough health workers to deliver medical care, one solution is to move certain tasks to less specialised health workers, a process called task-shifting.
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Health workers are at greater risk from the virus and play a key role in promoting vaccination themselves – so uptake needs to be high.
This is what it’s like fighting COVID-19 the second time around.
Health education curriculums need to specifically prepare healthcare professionals to respond to a pandemic when it comes to aspects like infection control, aged care and mental health.
Proposals in NSW to force someone who spits at or bites a frontline worker to be tested for HIV and other blood-borne viruses are a real problem - for workers and the public.
Keeping health-care workers COVID-free is critical to delivering care to those who need it during a pandemic. What can we do to ensure they are better protected?
Testing healthcare workers can play a role in preventing new infections, but is a highly limited strategy and shouldn’t distract from other, more helpful measures.
The interdependency between humans, animals and the environment is becoming more pronounced. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach to health problems.
The high stress conditions of an outbreak can spread a dysfunctional culture among those working to fight it. A survey after the 2015 Ebola epidemic quantified the issue – and suggests a better way.
Health workers promote exclusive breastfeeding to HIV positive mothers more than they do to mothers who are negative.
Corruption in Nigeria’s health sector can be eliminated by the implementation of a few simple strategies.
A new study has found that employing lay health workers at clinics can improve the way patients receive treatment.
Taking a power nap on a night shift can leave you feeling groggy. And eating a large meal can reduce your alertness. So, what’s a tired shift worker to do to make it through the night?
Doctors in Kenya went on strike two months ago asking the government to implement a collective bargaining agreement signed in June 2013.
The millennium development goals were laudable but the approach to achieving them was flawed. An integrated, bottom-up approach is needed if the sustainable development goals are to be met by 2030.
Instead of scouring the developing world for healthcare staff, we should be doing more to help doctors and nurses arriving here as refugees to join in.
In Ethiopia health extension workers in rural areas fulfill an essential service - but they feel they have no career path.
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Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmaco-economics/pharmaco-epidemiology in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Associate Professor in Anthropology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor in Health Systems and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow of International Development, Deakin University
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Sleep Researcher, Appleton Institute, HealthWise Research Group, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer: Interprofessional Education Unit, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Research Fellow, Perinatal Mental Health, Monash University
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Senior researcher, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University
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Professor of Health Policy and Systems, American University of Beirut
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Research Fellow, Sleep & Chronobiology Laboratory, Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Justice, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Subject Leader in TESOL, Cardiff Metropolitan University