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The labor market for health workers in Africa

Soucat, Agnes, Scheffler, Richard, Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom, World Bank

2013,2012

Overview

Health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa have changed profoundly over the last 20 years. The economic crisis of the 1980s and 1990s rattled public health care systems, which were largely holdovers from the colonial and postcolonial eras. The later wave of structural adjustments and public sector reforms wrought further change. As African economies opened to market based approaches, the private sector became a sizable source of health care service. Today about half the health expenditures in Africa are private, and private providers play a major role in the delivery of outpatient services. This is draws on the lessons, knowledge, and data gathered by the World Bank's Africa Region Human Resources for Health Program. For the first time, the various complexities of Human Resources for Health (HRH) labor markets are addressed comprehensively in one volume. Given the increasing demand in countries for strong health workforces that can help achieve universal health coverage; we hope this book will be beneficial to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners who are trying to develop evidence-based HRH interventions to achieve this end.

• Publisher: THE WORLD BANK,World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE / ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES / ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES / Africa / Afrika / ANTENATAL CARE / Arbeitsmarkt / BASIC HEALTH / BASIC HEALTH CARE / BIRTH ATTENDANT / BIRTH ATTENDANTS / BREAST CANCER / BULLETIN / BURDEN OF DISEASE / CENTER FOR HEALTH / CITIES / CLINICS / COHORT STUDIES / COMMUNITY HEALTH / COST ANALYSIS / COST STRUCTURE / CROWDING / DANGERS / DEMAND FOR HEALTH / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DIPHTHERIA / DISEASES / DOCTORS / EARLY YEARS / ECONOMIC GROWTH / Education / EFFECTIVE POLICIES / EPIDEMIC / FAMILIES / FAMILY HEALTH / FAMILY MEMBERS / FAMILY PLANNING / FINANCIAL BARRIERS / FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS / FINANCIAL INCENTIVES / FISCAL POLICY / Gesundheitsberufe / GLOBAL HEALTH / GLOBAL POPULATION / HEALTH AFFAIRS / HEALTH BUDGETS / HEALTH CARE / HEALTH CARE ACCESS / HEALTH CARE MARKETS / HEALTH CARE NEEDS / HEALTH CARE POLICY / HEALTH CARE SERVICE UTILIZATION / HEALTH CARE SERVICES / HEALTH CARE SYSTEM / HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS / HEALTH CARE USE / HEALTH CARE WORKERS / HEALTH CENTERS / HEALTH COVERAGE / HEALTH ECONOMICS / HEALTH EXPENDITURE / HEALTH EXPENDITURES / HEALTH EXPENDITURES PER CAPITA / HEALTH EXTENSION / HEALTH FACILITIES / HEALTH INSURANCE / HEALTH MANPOWER / Health Manpower -- Africa South of the Sahara / HEALTH ORGANIZATION / HEALTH OUTCOMES / Health Personnel / Health Personnel -- education -- Africa South of the Sahara / Health Personnel -- organization & administration -- Africa South of the Sahara / HEALTH PROFESSIONALS / HEALTH SECTOR / HEALTH SECTOR WORKERS / HEALTH SERVICE / HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY / HEALTH SERVICES / HEALTH SPECIALIST / HEALTH SPENDING / HEALTH STATUS / HEALTH SYSTEM / HEALTH SYSTEMS / HEALTH TRAINING / HEALTH WORKERS / HEALTH WORKFORCE / HIV / HIV TESTING / HIV/AIDS / HOSPITAL / HOSPITAL CARE / HUMAN CAPITAL / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT / HUMAN RESOURCES / HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT / ILLNESSES / IMPACT EVALUATIONS / IMPACT ON HEALTH / INCOME / INCOME COUNTRIES / INDEXES / INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS / INFANT / INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY / INTERVENTION / KNOWLEDGE BASE / LABOR MARKET / LABOR MARKETS / Labour market / LEGAL STATUS / LIVING CONDITIONS / LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES / MALARIA / MALARIA PREVENTION / MAMMOGRAPHY / MATERNAL MORTALITY / MEASLES / MEDICAL DOCTORS / MEDICAL EDUCATION / MEDICAL EQUIPMENT / MEDICAL FACILITIES / MEDICAL OFFICERS / Medical personnel / MEDICAL SCHOOL / MEDICAL SCHOOLS / MEDICAL TRAINING / MEDICINE / MIDWIFE / MIDWIVES / MIGRANT / MIGRATION / MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS / MINISTRIES OF HEALTH / MINISTRY OF HEALTH / MORTALITY / NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS / NATIONAL HEALTH / NATIONAL LEVEL / NEEDS ASSESSMENT / NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS / NUMBER OF PERSONS / NUMBER OF WORKERS / NURSE / NURSES / NURSING / NUTRITION / OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE / OUTPATIENT SERVICES / PAP SMEAR / PATIENTS / PERTUSSIS / PHARMACEUTICALS / PHYSICIAN / PHYSICIAN EDUCATION / PHYSICIANS / POLICY MAKERS / POOR HEALTH / POPULATION DISTRIBUTION / POPULATION ESTIMATES / POPULATION GROUPS / PRACTITIONERS / PREGNANCY / PREGNANT WOMEN / PRIMARY EDUCATION / PRIVATE SECTOR / PRIVATE SECTORS / PROBABILITY / PROGRESS / PUBLIC HEALTH / PUBLIC HEALTH CARE / PUBLIC POLICIES / PUBLIC POLICY / PUBLIC SECTOR / PURCHASING POWER / QUALITY OF SERVICES / QUALITY SERVICES / REMITTANCE / RESEARCH CENTERS / RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS / RICHER COUNTRIES / RURAL AREAS / Rural health services / SCREENING / SKILLED ATTENDANCE / SKILLED BIRTH ATTENDANTS / SMEAR TEST / Sub-Saharan Africa / Subsahara-Afrika / SUPPLY OF DOCTORS / SUPPLY OF HEALTH CARE / SURGERY / TERTIARY EDUCATION / TETANUS / TRAINING HEALTH WORKERS / TREATMENT / TUBERCULOSIS / UNEMPLOYMENT / UNIVERSAL ACCESS / URBAN AREAS / URBANIZATION / VACCINATION / VACCINATIONS / VACCINES / WHOOPING COUGH / WOMAN / WORKERS / WORKPLACE / WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
• ISBN: 9780821395554, 0821395556