| Title |
Applying the workload indicators of staffing need (WISN) method in Namibia: challenges and implications for human resources for health policy
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, December 2013
|
| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-11-64 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pamela A McQuide, Riitta-Liisa Kolehmainen-Aitken, Norbert Forster |
| Abstract |
As part of ongoing efforts to restructure the health sector and improve health care quality, the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) in Namibia sought to update staffing norms for health facilities. To establish an evidence base for the new norms, the MoHSS supported the first-ever national application of the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method, a human resource management tool developed by the World Health Organization. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| Rwanda | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 70% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 20% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 287 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| Uganda | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Vietnam | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 277 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 60 | 21% |
| Researcher | 30 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 14 | 5% |
| Other | 55 | 19% |
| Unknown | 78 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 80 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 47 | 16% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 3% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 10 | 3% |
| Other | 45 | 16% |
| Unknown | 81 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2023.
All research outputs
#3,671,302
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#442
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,111
of 320,161 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#8
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,261 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 320,161 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.