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| Title |
Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, February 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-8-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Beatus K Leon, Julie Riise Kolstad |
| Abstract |
The United Republic of Tanzania, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a human resources crisis in its health sector, with a small and inequitably distributed health workforce. Rural areas and other poor regions are characterised by a high burden of disease compared to other regions of the country. At the same time, these areas are poorly supplied with human resources compared to urban areas, a reflection of the situation in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa, where 1.3% of the world's health workforce shoulders 25% of the world's burden of disease. Medical schools select candidates for training and form these candidates' professional morale. It is therefore likely that medical schools can play an important role in the problem of geographical imbalance of doctors in the United Republic of Tanzania. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | 33% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 89 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 88 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 17% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Researcher | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 23 | 26% |
| Unknown | 10 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 40% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 12% |
| Unknown | 11 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 September 2022.
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#14,277,392
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#930
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#80,748
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#4
of 4 outputs
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