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Measuring the shortage of medical practi

Measuring the shortage of medical practitioners in rural and urban areas in developing countries: a simple framework and simulation exercises with data from India

✍ Homi Katrak 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 91 KB

## Abstract This paper suggests a simple framework to estimate the shortage of medical practitioners in rural and urban areas in developing countries. Shortages are defined with respect to four main considerations. The overall numbers and also the different categories of practitioners in the rural