“…Owing to data requirements, early efforts largely focused on specific developed countries for which data on health workers are more readily available [23]. Leveraging efforts to obtain crossnational and longitudinal data on health workers, Scheffler et al [19] were the first to forecast the demand, need, and supply of physicians for 158 countries with suitable data.…”
Background: In low-and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services.
“…Owing to data requirements, early efforts largely focused on specific developed countries for which data on health workers are more readily available [23]. Leveraging efforts to obtain crossnational and longitudinal data on health workers, Scheffler et al [19] were the first to forecast the demand, need, and supply of physicians for 158 countries with suitable data.…”
Background: In low-and middle-income countries, scaling essential health interventions to achieve health development targets is constrained by the lack of skilled health professionals to deliver services.
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