Nurses and midwives demographic shift in Ghana—the policy implications of a looming crisis

Abstract As part of measures to address severe shortage of nurses and midwives, Ghana embarked on massive scale-up of the production of nurses and midwives which has yielded remarkable improvements in nurse staffing levels. It has, however, also resulted in a dramatic demographic shift in the nursin...

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Main Authors: James Avoka Asamani, Ninon P. Amertil, Hamza Ismaila, Akugri Abande Francis, Margaret M. Chebere, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Human Resources for Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-019-0377-1