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Measuring the availability of human resources for health and its relationship to universal health coverage for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Human resources for health (HRH) include a range of occupations that aim to promote or improve human health. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the WHO Health Workforce 2030 strategy have drawn attention to the importance of HRH for achieving policy priorities such as universal health coverage (UHC). Although previous research has found substantial global disparities in HRH, the absence of comparable cross-national …

Authors

Collaborators GHRFH; Haakenstad A; Irvine CMS; Knight M; Bintz C; Aravkin AY; Zheng P; Gupta V; Abrigo MRM; Abushouk AI

Journal

The Lancet, Vol. 399, No. 10341, pp. 2129–2154

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

June 2022

DOI

10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00532-3

ISSN

0140-6736