The world’s need for and supply of health professionals is in flux. The latest article in the Global Health Series reviews the supply of and demand for physicians and nurses around the world. An interactive graphic shows the density of health workers in each country.
There is a global crisis of severe shortages and marked maldistribution of health professionals that is exacerbated by three great global transitions — demographic changes, epidemiologic shifts, and redistribution of the disability burden.
Shared from the New England Journal of Medicine
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