Background: Human Resource for Health is an important contributor to the quality of health care services. Research on health workforce has been the concern of health organizations and hospital managers. Severals theses on health workforce and job satisfaction have been conducted recently. However there has not been consistency in research methodology and approach. the authors conducted a research to review the theses at Hanoi School of Public Health which are related to job satisfaction of health workers. the research aims to: 1) Summarize some results on job satisfaction of health workers in the hospitals, 2) Analyze the methodology used in the assessment of job satisfaction of health workers in the hospitals. Methods: Literature review. Conclusions: Almost theses applied Herzberg conceptual framework, however, there are differences between factors related to job satisfaction of health workers. As some questionaires were not validated, the quality of results could be influenced. Almost research did not clearly mention purpose and significances of qualitative results. Three major factors dissatisfied health workers the most including Remuneration, Working Environment and Recognition.