Investing in human resources for health: The need for a paradigm shift

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Feng ^a   Squires, Neil ^b   Weakliam, David ^b   Van Lerberghe, Wim ^c   Soucat, Agnes ^a   Toure, Kadidiatou ^d   Shakarishvili, George ^e   Quain, Estelle ^f   Maeda, Akiko ^g  

^a AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Tunisia)

^b Department for International Development ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health   (Switzerland)

^e TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^f UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^g WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INVESTMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS;

EID: 84887001621     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.118687     Document Type: Editorial

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