Ebook: The labor market for health workers in Africa : a new look at the crisis
Author: Soucat Agnes L. B., Scheffler Richard M.
- Tags: Medical personnel Supply and demand Africa Sub Saharan HEALTH FITNESS Diseases General Health Care Issues MEDICAL Delivery Policy Public SOCIAL SCIENCE Disease Manpower Personnel education organization administration
- Series: Directions in development (Washington D.C.). Human development.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: World Bank
- City: Washington, D.C., Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Language: English
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Sub-Saharan Africa has only 12 percent of the global population, yet this region accounts for 50 percent of child deaths, more than 60 percent of maternal deaths, 85 percent of malaria cases, and close to 67 percent of people living with HIV. Sub-Saharan Africa, however, has the lowest number of health workers in the world-significantly fewer than in South Asia, which is at a comparable level of economic Read more...