Health sector employment: A tracer indicator for universal health coverage in national Social Protection Floors

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Scheil Adlung, Xenia ^a   Behrendt, Thorsten ^a   Wong, Lorraine ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Health worker employment; Social protection; UHC

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPLOYMENT; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84940518042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-015-0056-9     Document Type: Article

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