Gender-based distributional skewness of the United Republic of Tanzania's health workforce cadres: A cross-sectional health facility survey

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Exavery, Amon ^a   Lutambi, Angelina M ^a   Wilson, Neema ^a   Mubyazi, Godfrey M ^b   Pemba, Senga ^c   Mbaruku, Godfrey ^a  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH)   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Distribution; Gender; Health workforce; Skewness; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879226157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-28     Document Type: Article

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