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Models for increasing the health workforce
Sabiha Yusuf Essack
Abstract
A stable human resource base in the health sector is critical to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. There is a severe quantitative and qualitative shortfall of healthcare professionals in South Africa, and the existing and future health workforce production is inadequate for our healthcare needs. The production model must include all healthcare disciplines because the quadruple burden of disease necessitates multi-professional healthcare teams working synergistically to improve health outcomes and life expectancy.
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Sabiha Yusuf Essack, Dean and Head, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Chair, South African Committee of Health Sciences Deans
Article History
Date submitted: 2012-02-27
Date published: 2012-09-07
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