Imbalances in the health labour force: An assessment using data from three national health facility surveys

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 80-90

  Barden O'Fallon, Janine ^a,d   Angeles, Gustavo ^a,b   Tsui, Amy ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of NC at Chapel Hill ^*  (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Health facility survey; Health labour force; Nicaragua; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SERVICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 32244448482     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czj012     Document Type: Article

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