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

• Váldodahkkit: Yohannes Kinfu (Dahkki), Mario R Dal Poz (Dahkki), Hugo Mercer (Dahkki), David B Evans (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: The World Health Organization.
• Fáttát: article
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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,...