The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on March 01, 2009

Authors

Yohannes Kinfu1, Mario R Dal Poz, Hugo Mercer, David B Evans

Author Affiliations

1: School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. y.kinfu@uq.edu.au

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