The health worker shortage in Africa: Are enough physicians and nurses being trained?

Yohannes KINFU; Mario Dal Poz; Hugo Mercer; David Evans

doi:10.2471/BLT.08.051599

The health worker shortage in Africa: Are enough physicians and nurses being trained?

Yohannes KINFU, Mario Dal Poz, Hugo Mercer, David Evans

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Abstract

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, retirement, resignation and dismissal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	225-230
Number of pages	6
Journal	Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
Volume	87
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.08.051599
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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