Can we halt health workforce deterioration in failed states? Insights from Guinea-Bissau on the nature, persistence and evolution of its HRH crisis

Type Journal Article - Human resources for health
Title Can we halt health workforce deterioration in failed states? Insights from Guinea-Bissau on the nature, persistence and evolution of its HRH crisis
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Volume 15
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2017
URL https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-017-0189-0
Abstract
Guinea-Bissau is one of the world’s poorest and least developed countries. Amid poverty, political turmoil and state withdrawal, its health workforce (HW) has been swamped for the last four decades in a deepening crisis of under-resourcing, poor performance and laissez-faire.

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