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Human resources for health in India

Lancet, The, 2011
India has a severe shortage of human resources for health. It has a shortage of qualified health workers and the workforce is concentrated in urban areas. Bringing qualified health workers to rural, remote, and underserved areas is very challenging. Many Indians, especially those living in rural areas, receive care from unqualified providers.
Krishna D Rao, Mirai Chatterjee
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Allocating Health Resources

Social Policy & Administration, 1986
AbstractTo clarify the polemics surrounding public and private responsibilities in health care, this article deals with the economic justification for the commitment of public resources. Public health measures do possess the properties of public goods or physical externalities, and yet may not have the sufficient conditions for allocating resources by ...
Kenneth, Lee, Naoki, Ikegami
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Fairness of the Distribution of Public Medical and Health Resources

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
The fairness of health services is an important indicator of the World Health Organization's performance evaluation of health services, and the fairness of health resource allocation is the prerequisite for the fairness of health services.
Lida Pu, Lida Pu
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The lay resource in health and health care

Health Promotion International, 1986
In our preoccupation with developing professional health care services, we have lost sight of the contribution of lay people to their own health care. Indeed, health care has become synonymous with professional care. Recently, however, studies in Europe and North American suggest that the lay resource in health care constitutes at least 85% of all ...
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Government Resources on Mental Health

The Senior Care Pharmacist, 2020
State and federal governments collect massive amounts of data, both in their role as sponsors of research and as payers for an increasing share of health care services. The information available includes definitive clinical research as well as statistical information about disease prevalence and contribution to health care costs.
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Social Resources, Health Resources, and Preventive Health Behavior: Patterns and Predictions

Public Health Nursing, 1985
AbstractThis study was designed to test the resource model of preventive health behavior (PHB) that incorporates social and health resources as causes of good health habits. The findings were based on survey data collected in 1979 on a national probability sample of 3,025 adults. Factor analysis was used to construct indexes of PHB and of health.
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