The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?
OBJECTIVE: To estimate systematically the inflow and outflow of health workers in Africa and examine whether current levels of pre-service training in the region suffice to address this serious problem, taking into account population increases and attrition of health workers due to premature death,...
Main Authors: | Yohannes Kinfu, Mario R Dal Poz, Hugo Mercer, David B Evans |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
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Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000300017&lng=en&tlng=en |
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