作者
Merlin L Willcox, Wim Peersman, Pierre Daou, Chiaka Diakité, Francis Bajunirwe, Vincent Mubangizi, Eman Hassan Mahmoud, Shabir Moosa, Nthabiseng Phaladze, Oathokwa Nkomazana, Mustafa Khogali, Drissa Diallo, Jan De Maeseneer, David Mant
发表日期
2015/12
来源
Human resources for health
卷号
13
页码范围
1-11
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
The World Health Organization defines a “critical shortage” of health workers as being fewer than 2.28 health workers per 1000 population and failing to attain 80% coverage for deliveries by skilled birth attendants. We aimed to quantify the number of health workers in five African countries and the proportion of these currently working in primary health care facilities, to compare this to estimates of numbers needed and to assess how the situation has changed in recent years.
Methods
This study is a review of published and unpublished “grey” literature on human resources for health in five disparate countries: Mali, Sudan, Uganda, Botswana and South Africa.
Results
Health worker density has increased steadily since 2000 in South Africa and Botswana which already meet WHO targets but has not …
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