Cameroon public health sector: shortage and inequalities in geographic distribution of health personnel

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• 作者：Tinyami Erick Tandi ; YongMin Cho…
• 关键词：Health workforce ; Availability ; Distribution ; Inequalities ; Alternative indicators ; Cameroon
• 刊名：International Journal for Equity in Health
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,043 KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Development Economics; Quality of Life Research; Social Policy;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1475-9276

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Introduction Cameroon is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a critical shortage of health personnel. This is further complicated by the geographic distributional inequalities of the national health workforce. This shortfall impedes Cameroons’ progress of improving the human resources for health (HRH) to meet up with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. However, it is unknown whether the health workforce of Cameroon is distributed equally across geographic regions. Additionally, indicators other than population levels have not been used to measure health care needs. This study aimed to assess the adequacy, evenness of distribution and challenges faced by the health workforce across the different regions of Cameroon.