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Health workforce retention in remote and rural areas: call for papers.

Publication: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Publication Date: 01-JUL-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Health workforce retention in remote and rural areas: call for papers.(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Although approximately one half of the global population lives in rural areas, these people are served by only 38% of the total nursing workforce and by less than a quarter of the total physicians' workforce. At the country level, imbalances in the distribution of health workers are even more prominent, in both developed and developing countries. (1,2) Without local access to well trained and motivated health workers, it is unlikely that communities will have access to important primary health care services to respond to priority health needs and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. (3-5)

Health workers have always tended to move in search of better living and working conditions, improved salaries and opportunities for professional development, be it...

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