It is now widely acknowledged that health workers' roles and practices; their identities and motivation; their training, support and deployment are at the centre of successes and failures of health interventions and health system functioning. The past few years have seen a proliferation of research on these and others topics related to human resources for health (HRH), drawing from a range of disciplines such as public health, sociology, psychology, organizational and management sciences.
The reader aims to strengthen research in this area order to help inform HRH policies.
To inform the development of the HPSR reader on HRH, the Alliance in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape and partners request the submission of relevant peer-reviewed scientific articles in the area of HRH by 30 November 2016.
The reader builds upon recent efforts by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research to strengthen health systems research approaches, including the Health Systems Research Methodology Reader, the Implementation Research Guide, and the Participatory Action Research Methods Reader.