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PLOS Glob Public Health
December 2024
Health Workforce Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
The unprecedented and multi-faceted challenges health and care workers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic inspired the world's health ministers to call for a new Global Health and Care Worker Compact at the 74th World Health Assembly in 2021. The Care Compact identifies key areas where governments can use law and policy to prevent harm, provide support, ensure inclusivity, and safeguard rights of health and care workers toward improving population health. Using policy surveillance methods, we conducted an empirical analysis of the national law and policy environments on health and care workers' protection and rights in 182 countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRes Social Adm Pharm
February 2025
Centre for Pharmacy Workforce Studies, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Background: Pharmacy technicians play a crucial role in the healthcare system to enable pharmacists to focus on clinical services. However, a lack of recognition for their role and contribution leads to high turnover rates.
Objective: To identify the reasons behind pharmacy technicians leaving, or intending to leave, pharmacy practice.
Lancet Glob Health
November 2024
MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK. Electronic address:
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the beneficial impact of vaccines. It also highlighted the need for future investments to expedite an equitable vaccine distribution. The 100 Days Mission aims to develop and make available a new vaccine against a future pathogen with pandemic potential within 100 days of that pathogen threat being recognised.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommunity Health Equity Res Policy
September 2024
School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
This study explored the use of three participatory tools within a Philippines-based case study with community health workers (CHWs) by comparing and contrasting the process and data generated across the tools, and critically reflecting on adaptations and facilitation considerations that affected the tools' use. Facilitator notes and audio-recordings of discussions were integrated and analyzed thematically. Tools differed by the type of data generated: program-specific data related to CHWs' roles and responsibilities or data on broader structural factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neurol
October 2024
Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Progressive inflammation of one hemisphere characterises Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE), but contralesional epileptiform activity has been repeatedly reported. We aimed to quantify contralesional epileptiform activity in RE and uncover its functional and structural underpinnings. We retrospectively ascertained people with RE treated between 2000 and 2018 at a tertiary centre (Centre 1) and reviewed all available EEG datasets.
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