The Human Resources for Health Effort Index: a tool to assess and inform Strategic Health Workforce Investments

Abstract Background Despite its importance, the field of human resources for health (HRH) has lagged in developing methods to measure its status and progress in low- and middle-income countries suffering a workforce crisis. Measures of professional health worker densities and distribution are purely...

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Main Authors: Alfredo L. Fort, Rachel Deussom, Randi Burlew, Kate Gilroy, David Nelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Human Resources for Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-017-0223-2