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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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