Forecasting the global shortage of physicians: an economic- and needs-based approach

• Váldodahkkit: Richard M Scheffler (Dahkki), Jenny X Liu (Dahkki), Yohannes Kinfu (Dahkki), Mario R Dal Poz (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: The World Health Organization, 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Fáttát: article
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OBJECTIVE: Global achievements in health may be limited by critical shortages of health-care workers. To help guide workforce policy, we estimate the future demand for, need for and supply of physicians, by WHO region, to determine where likely shortages will occur by 2015, the target date of the Mi...