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Informing health decisions and actions
Exploring health workforce inequalities Case studies from three countries
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Description
Investment in health systems so that they are able to extend coverage of health services to the world��s poor populations is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to saving lives, reducing poverty, spurring economic development and promoting global security (Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, 2001). The effective and equitable provision of essential health services depends to a large degree on the availability, competence, regulation, motivation and distribution of human resources for health (HRH), which represent the largest single use of public spending on health in developing countries.