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A population's health is significantly impacted by the equitable and effective administration of healthcare services. The performance of the health system depends heavily on the health professionals who oversee providing medical care. Health outcomes like immunization coverage and infant and maternal survival as well as increased service use have been shown to be positively correlated with the availability of health workers. Due to state wise, urban-rural disparities a huge population of Indians mostly the rural population or the urban poor receive care from unqualified or underqualified providers (Rao, 2016).
It is estimated that 60% of health workers live in urban areas, which cater to only 26% of the country’s population. The density of health workers in urban areas is 42 per 10,000 whereas for rural areas it is 11.8 per 10,000. Nurses and doctors, both allopathic and AYUSH, are three to four times more prevalent in urban regions than in rural ones (Rao, 2016).
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Posted : March 6, 2023 7:18 pm
Dr. Sofia R. Saggu reacted
COVID-19 has reinforced the importance of having a sufficient, well-distributed and competent health workforce. In addition to improving health outcomes, increased investment in health has the potential to generate employment, increase labour productivity and foster economic growth. We estimate the required investment for increasing the production of the health workforce in India for achieving the UHC/SDGs.India needs to significantly increase the production of doctors and nurses/midwives through investing in opening up new medical colleges. Nursing sector should be prioritized to encourage talents to join nursing profession and provide quality education. India needs to set up a benchmark for skill-mix ratio and provide attractive employment opportunities in the health sector to increase the demand and absorb the new graduates
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Karan A, Negandhi H, Kabeer M, Zapata T, Mairembam D, De Graeve H, Buchan J, Zodpey S. Achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030: investment estimates to increase production of health professionals in India. Hum Resour Health. 2023 Mar 2;21(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s12960-023-00802-y. PMID: 36864436; PMCID: PMC9979880.
Posted : May 22, 2025 11:18 am
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