Healthcare professionals are the trained workforce that delivers clinical and preventive services, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health practitioners, and community and paramedical staff who diagnose, treat, and prevent illness and support patients across the continuum of care. Their effectivenes…
Healthcare professionals are the trained workforce that delivers clinical and preventive services, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health practitioners, and community and paramedical staff who diagnose, treat, and prevent illness and support patients across the continuum of care. Their effectiveness depends not only on clinical competence but also on communication, teamwork, social competence, working conditions, and the quality systems within which they operate. Research in this area examines the experiences, performance, and well-being of the health workforce, including qualitative and phenomenological methods for interviewing in healthcare, relationships between social competence and work-related behaviour among physicians, nurses, and paramedics, and the mental-health burden borne by providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies address service quality and safety, including data quality in public health facilities, quality-improvement strategies in private healthcare evaluated through a Donabedian framework, hand-hygiene knowledge and practice, and vaccine uptake and seroprevalence among workers. The role of professionals in challenging contexts is a recurring theme, including end-of-life care for older people in long-term settings, care for refugees and their caregivers, recognition of postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and access to comprehensive care for survivors of sexual violence. By focusing on the people who provide care, the field informs workforce development and service improvement. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on healthcare professionals, their practice, and the systems supporting them.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 70 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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