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Special Issue on Scaling up Health Workforce in the Eastern Mediterranean Region EMHJ – Vol. 24 No. 9 – 2018 Eastern Mediterranean La Revue de Santé de la Editorial Health Journal Méditerranée orientale The need for research evidence to meet health workforce challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Fethiye Gulin Gedik, James Buchan, Zafar Mirza, Arash Rashidian, Sameen Siddiqi and Gilles Dussault .............................................................................811 Research articles Public health education and health system needs in Pakistan: a mixed methods study Muhammad Zeeshan, Usman Raza, Saeed Anwar, Durdana Khan, Aamir Abbas, Naveed Sadiq and Umair Qazi................................................................813 An estimation of staffing requirements in primary care in Oman using the Workload Indicators of Staffing Needs method Nazar Mohamed, Ahmed Al-Qasmi, Said Al-Lamki, Mohamed Bayoumi and Ali Al-Hinai ..........................................................................................................823 Physicians’ retention rate and its effective factors in the Islamic Republic of Iran Elham Ehsani-Chimeh, Reza Majdzadeh, Sajad Delavari, Masoumeh Najafi Gharebelagh, Satar Rezaei and Enayatollah Homaie Rad .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................830 Encouraging junior doctors to work in rural Sudan: a discrete choice experiment Nazik Nurelhuda, Amal Bashir, Sarah ElKogali, Muna Mustafa, Margaret Kruk and Muna Abdel Aziz .................................................................................838 Human resources for health strategies: the way to achieve universal health coverage in the Islamic Republic of Iran Journal Health Mediterranean Eastern Gholamhossein Salehi Zalani, Roghayeh Khalilnezhad, Elmira Mirbahaeddin, Azad Shokri, Tahereh Kashkalani, Mahboubeh Bayat ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 846 Perceived healthcare workforce needs in Lebanon: a step towards informed human resources planning and professional development Mirou Jaana, Michel Majdalani, Haitham Tamim and Rita Rahbany ..................................................................................................................................................855 Effect of dual practice on service delivery time by surgeons in the Islamic Republic of Iran: multi-level analysis of a national survey, 2016 Mahboubeh Bayat, Azad Shokri, Roghayeh Khalilnezhad, Elmira Mirbahaeddin, Mahmoud Khodadost, Hamed Fattahi, Gholamhossein Salehi Zalani, Iraj Harirchi, Mehdi Yaser, Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan and Ali Akbari-Sari ................................................. 866 Factors influencing medical specialists’ dual practice in the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahboubeh Bayat, Azad Shokri, Mahmoud Khodadost, Hamed Fattahi, Elmira Mirbahaeddin, 9 24 No. Vol. Iraj Harirchi, Ali Akbari-Sari, Gholamhossein Salehi Zalani and Roghayeh Khalilnezhad ...........................................................................................................877 A mapping of nursing and midwifery research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2006–2016 Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Hiba Deek and Samar Noureddine ................................................................................................................................................................... 888 – Reports 2018 From workforce intelligence to workforce development: advancing the Eastern Mediterranean pharmaceutical workforce for better health outcomes Lina Bader, Ian Bates and Chris John .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 899 Yemen field epidemiology training programme: a tool for strengthening the public health workforce Abdulwahed Al Serouri, Aisha Jumaan and Abdulhakem Alkohlani .....................................................................................................................................................905 Implementing an interprofessional education programme in Lebanon: overcoming challenges Anna Farra, Rony Zeenny, Soumana Nasser, Nadia Asmar, Aline Milane, Maya Bassil, Mona Haidar, Maha Habre, Nadine Zeeni and Nancy Hoffart ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 914 Developing a national competency-based curriculum for technical nurses in Egypt Sharon M. Brownie, Charles Docherty, Nabeel Al-Yateem, Mohamed H. Gadallah, and Rachel Rossiter................................................................................922 Capacity building on health diplomacy: a training experience from Pakistan Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Saima Hamid and Assad Hafeez .........................................................................................................................................................................933 Reviews Task sharing in health workforce: An overview of community health worker programmes in Afghanistan, Egypt and Pakistan Rachel Folz and Moazzam Ali............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 940 Addressing health workforce shortages and maldistribution in Afghanistan Najibullah Safi, Ahmad Naeem, Merette Khalil, Palwasha Anwari and Gulin Gedik ..................................................................................................................... 951 Transformation of nursing education: the experience of Bahrain Muyssar Awadhalla, Batool Al-Mohandis and Fariba Al-Darazi .............................................................................................................................................................959 Special issue on scaling up health workforce in the Eastern Mediterranean Region WHO events addressing public health priorities Meeting on health workforce observatories in the Eastern Mediterranean Region ..............................................................................965 Framework for action for health workforce development in the Eastern Mediterranean Region..................................... 968 املجلد الرابع والعرشون / عدد Volume 24 / No. 9 2018 9 سبتمرب/أيلول September/Septembre Cover 24-09 special issue.indd 1-3 1/13/2019 1:56:32 PM Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal Members of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean IS the official health journal published by the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization. It is a forum for Afghanistan . Bahrain . Djibouti . Egypt . Islamic Republic of Iran . Iraq . Jordan . Kuwait . Lebanon the presentation and promotion of new policies and initiatives in public health and health services; and for the exchange of ideas, concepts, Libya . Morocco . Oman . Pakistan . Palestine . Qatar . Saudi Arabia . Somalia . Sudan . Syrian Arab Republic epidemiological data, research findings and other information, with special reference to the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It addresses Tunisia . United Arab Emirates . Yemen all members of the health profession, medical and other health educational institutes, interested NGOs, WHO Collaborating Centres and individuals within and outside the Region. البلدان أعضاء اللجنة اﻹقليمية ملنظمة الصحة العاملية لرشق املتوسط املجلة الصحية لرشق املتوسط اﻷردن . أفغانستان . اﻹمارات العربية املتحدة . باكستان . البحرين . تونس . ليبيا . مجهورية إيران اﻹسﻻمية هى املجلة الرسمية التى تصدر عن املكتب اﻹقليمى لرشق املتوسط بمنظمة الصحة العاملية. وهى منرب لتقديم السياسات واملبادرات اجلديدة يف الصحة العامة . اجلمهورية العربية السورية جيبويت السودان الصومال العراق عُ امن فلسطني قطر الكويت لبنان مرص املغرب واخلدمات الصحية والرتويج هلا، ولتبادل اﻵراء واملفاهيم واملعطيات الوبائية ونتائج اﻷبحاث وغري ذلك من املعلومات، وخاصة ما يتعلق منها بإقليم رشق اململكة العربية السعودية . اليمن املتوسط. وهى موجهة إىل كل أعضاء املهن الصحية، والكليات الطبية وسائر املعاهد التعليمية، وكذا املنظامت غري احلكومية املعنية، واملراكز املتعاونة مع منظمة الصحة العاملية واﻷفراد املهتمني بالصحة ىف اﻹقليم وخارجه. Membres du Comité régional de l’OMS pour la Méditerranée orientale La Revue de Santé de la Méditerranée Orientale Afghanistan . Arabie saoudite . Bahreïn . Djibouti . Égypte . Émirats arabes unis . République islamique d’Iran EST une revue de santé officielle publiée par le Bureau régional de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé pour la Méditerranée orientale. Elle Iraq . Libye . Jordanie . Koweït . Liban . Maroc . Oman . Pakistan . Palestine . Qatar . République arabe syrienne offre une tribune pour la présentation et la promotion de nouvelles politiques et initiatives dans le domaine de la santé publique et des Somalie . Soudan . Tunisie . Yémen services de santé ainsi qu’à l’échange d’idées, de concepts, de données épidémiologiques, de résultats de recherches et d’autres informa- tions, se rapportant plus particulièrement à la Région de la Méditerranée orientale. Elle s’adresse à tous les professionnels de la santé, aux membres des instituts médicaux et autres instituts
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