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Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country
BACKGROUND: One of the main forthcoming challenges of healthcare systems against preparedness and management of the pandemic is the challenge of procurement and recruitment of the human resources. This study is aimed to explore the health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran....
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8786119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35073374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262887 |
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author | Yusefi, Ali Reza Sharifi, Mehrdad Nasabi, Narjes sadat Rezabeigi Davarani, Esmat Bastani, Peivand |
author_facet | Yusefi, Ali Reza Sharifi, Mehrdad Nasabi, Narjes sadat Rezabeigi Davarani, Esmat Bastani, Peivand |
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description | BACKGROUND: One of the main forthcoming challenges of healthcare systems against preparedness and management of the pandemic is the challenge of procurement and recruitment of the human resources. This study is aimed to explore the health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. METHODS: This qualitative content analysis study was conducted in 2020. The study population includes all the Iranian human resources managers affiliated in Universities of Medical Sciences, hospitals and health centers managers and the health networks managers all over the country. 23 participants were included via purposeful sampling considering the inclusion criteria and were interviewed individually. After 23 semi-structured interviews, data were saturated. Then the data were analyzed through content analysis approach applying MAXQDA(10.) RESULTS: Three main themes of “organizational challenges”, “legal challenges”, and “personal challenges” were explored as the main challenges of health human resources management during COVID-19. On the one hand, organizational challenges include restricted financial resources, compensation discrimination, staffing distinction points, imbalance in the workload, weak organizational coordination, inefficient inter-sectoral relationships, parallel decisions, inefficient distribution of the human resources, lack of applied education, lack of integrated health protocols, lack of appropriate evaluation of performance, employee turnover, lack of clear approaches for staffing, and shortage of specialized manpower, and on the other hand, the personal challenges include insufficient knowledge of the employees, psychological disorders, reduction of self-confidence, burnout, workload increase, reduced level of job satisfaction, effects of colleague and patients bereavement and unsafety sense against the work place. Finally, the legal challenges that mostly related to the governments laws and regulations include lack of protocols for continuous supportive services, inappropriate approaches and instructions for teleworking, and lack of alternative plans and regulations for the human resources. CONCLUSION: Organizational, legal and personal challenges are among three main challenges of health human resources management during COVID-19 pandemic. Serious attention to these challenges should be considered by health policymakers in order to be prepared for facing new probable outbreaks and managing the present condition. The integrated comprehensive planning of human resources management for COVID-19 along with supportive packages for the personnel can be helpful. |
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spelling | pubmed-87861192022-01-25 Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country Yusefi, Ali Reza Sharifi, Mehrdad Nasabi, Narjes sadat Rezabeigi Davarani, Esmat Bastani, Peivand PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: One of the main forthcoming challenges of healthcare systems against preparedness and management of the pandemic is the challenge of procurement and recruitment of the human resources. This study is aimed to explore the health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. METHODS: This qualitative content analysis study was conducted in 2020. The study population includes all the Iranian human resources managers affiliated in Universities of Medical Sciences, hospitals and health centers managers and the health networks managers all over the country. 23 participants were included via purposeful sampling considering the inclusion criteria and were interviewed individually. After 23 semi-structured interviews, data were saturated. Then the data were analyzed through content analysis approach applying MAXQDA(10.) RESULTS: Three main themes of “organizational challenges”, “legal challenges”, and “personal challenges” were explored as the main challenges of health human resources management during COVID-19. On the one hand, organizational challenges include restricted financial resources, compensation discrimination, staffing distinction points, imbalance in the workload, weak organizational coordination, inefficient inter-sectoral relationships, parallel decisions, inefficient distribution of the human resources, lack of applied education, lack of integrated health protocols, lack of appropriate evaluation of performance, employee turnover, lack of clear approaches for staffing, and shortage of specialized manpower, and on the other hand, the personal challenges include insufficient knowledge of the employees, psychological disorders, reduction of self-confidence, burnout, workload increase, reduced level of job satisfaction, effects of colleague and patients bereavement and unsafety sense against the work place. Finally, the legal challenges that mostly related to the governments laws and regulations include lack of protocols for continuous supportive services, inappropriate approaches and instructions for teleworking, and lack of alternative plans and regulations for the human resources. CONCLUSION: Organizational, legal and personal challenges are among three main challenges of health human resources management during COVID-19 pandemic. Serious attention to these challenges should be considered by health policymakers in order to be prepared for facing new probable outbreaks and managing the present condition. The integrated comprehensive planning of human resources management for COVID-19 along with supportive packages for the personnel can be helpful. Public Library of Science 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8786119/ /pubmed/35073374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262887 Text en © 2022 Yusefi et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yusefi, Ali Reza Sharifi, Mehrdad Nasabi, Narjes sadat Rezabeigi Davarani, Esmat Bastani, Peivand Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
title | Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
title_full | Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
title_fullStr | Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
title_full_unstemmed | Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
title_short | Health human resources challenges during COVID-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
title_sort | health human resources challenges during covid-19 pandemic; evidence of a qualitative study in a developing country |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8786119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35073374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262887 |
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