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Responding to the global human resources crisis.
Vasant Narasimhan,Hilary Brown,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,Orvill Adams,Gilles Dussault,Gijs Elzinga,Anders Nordström,Demissie Habte,Marian Jacobs,Giorgio Solimano,Nelson K. Sewankambo,Suwit Wibulpolprasert,Timothy G Evans,Lincoln C. Chen +13 more
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The global community needs to engage in four core strategies: raise the profile of the issue of human resources; improve the conceptual base and statistical evidence available to decision makers; collect, share, and learn from country experiences; and begin to formulate and enact policies at the country level that affect all aspects of the crisis.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2004-05-01. It has received 280 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human resources & Essential medicines.read more
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Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis
Lincoln C. Chen,Timothy G Evans,Sudhir Anand,Jo Ivey Boufford,Hilary Brown,Mushtaque Chowdhury,Marcos Cueto,Lola Dare,Gilles Dussault,Gijs Elzinga,Elizabeth Fee,Demissie Habte,Piya Hanvoravongchai,Marian Jacobs,Christoph Kurowski,Sarah Michael,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,Nelson K. Sewankambo,Giorgio Solimano,Barbara Stilwell,Alex de Waal,Suwit Wibulpolprasert +21 more
TL;DR: This analysis of the global workforce proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries.
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The metrics of the physician brain drain.
TL;DR: Reliance on international medical graduates in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia is reducing the supply of physicians in many lower-income countries.
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Laboratory medicine in Africa: a barrier to effective health care.
TL;DR: The barriers to implementing consistent testing within this region are explored and the need for a more comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of infectious diseases is illustrated, with an emphasis on making laboratory testing a higher priority is illustrated.
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Improving the prevention and management of chronic disease in low-income and middle-income countries: a priority for primary health care
Robert Beaglehole,JoAnne E. Epping-Jordan,Vikram Patel,Mickey Chopra,Shah Ebrahim,Michael Kidd,Andy Haines +6 more
TL;DR: To meet the challenge of chronic diseases, primary health care will have to be strengthened substantially and research on scaling-up should be embedded in large-scale delivery programmes for chronic diseases with a strong emphasis on assessment.
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How to bridge the gap in human resources for health
Charles Hongoro,Barbara McPake +1 more
TL;DR: Serious concerns exist about the quality and productivity of the health workforce in low income countries and among available strategies to address the problems, expansion of the numbers of doctors and nurses through training is highly constrained.
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