Applying WHO's 'workforce indicators of staffing need' (WISN) method to calculate the health worker requirements for India's maternal and child health service guarantees in Orissa State

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-18

  Hagopian, Amy ^a   Mohanty, Manmath K ^b   Das, Abhijit ^c   House, Peter J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Health Resource Unit   (India)

^c Centre for Health and Social Justice New Delhi   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

health planning; health professionals; Health workers; maternal and child health; rural health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CENSUSES; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84855212113     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czr007     Document Type: Article

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