One of the great challenges facing global health today is the critical shortage of skilled health personnel, especially in remote areas of the world. An estimated billion people in the world have no access to any health care service. The health workforce has been the cornerstone in channeling efforts to achieve the health-related millennium development goals (MDGs), where much of the focus has been on women, children and those most vulnerable to, and infected and affected by, HIV and other health conditions.
The Disastrous Global Shortage of Health Workers
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The Disastrous Global Shortage of Health Workers
One of the great challenges facing global health today is the critical shortage of skilled health personnel, especially in remote areas of the world. An estimated billion people in the world have no access to any health care service. The health workforce has been the cornerstone in channeling efforts to achieve the health-related millennium development goals (MDGs), where much of the focus has been on women, children and those most vulnerable to, and infected and affected by, HIV and other health conditions.
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