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Measuring adequacy of the midwifery workforce using standards of competency and scope of work: Exploring the density and distribution of midwives in three low- and middle-income countries using cross-sectional and geospatial data

BACKGROUND: A global midwifery shortage hampers the goal of ending preventable maternal/newborn mortality and stillbirths. Whether current measures of midwifery workforce adequacy are valid is unknown. We compare two measures of density and distribution of midwifery professionals to assess their con...

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Autores principales: Gausman, Jewel, Ramesh, Sowmya, Adanu, Richard M., Bandoh, Delia A. B., Blossom, Jeff, Chakraborty, Suchandrima, Kenu, Ernest, Khan, Nizamuddin, Langer, Ana, Odikro, Magdalene A., Saggurti, Niranjan, Jolivet, R. Rima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37023041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284034