Margaret E Kruk|Marta R. Prescott|Helen de Pinho|Sandro Galea
Are doctors and nurses associated with coverage of essential health services in developing countries? A cross-sectional study
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|Columbia University|University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
broad policy consensus shortage doctors nurses key constraint increasing utilization essential health services important achieving health millennium development goals however limited research quantitative links health workers service coverage rates examined relationship doctor nurse concentrations utilization rates five essential health services developing countrieswe performed crossnational analyses low middleincome countries means ordinary least squares regression coverage rates antenatal care attended delivery caesarean section measles immunization tuberculosis case diagnosis care acute respiratory infection outcomes doctor nurse aggregate health worker sum doctors nurses concentrations main explanatory variablesnurses associated utilization skilled birth attendants p002 doctors associated measles immunization rates p001 separate adjusted analyses aggregate health workers associated utilization skilled birth attendants p001 measles immunization p001 doctors nurses aggregate health workers associated remaining four servicesa range health system populationlevel factors aside health workers influences coverage health services developing countries however also plausible health workers neither doctors nurses clinical officers community health workers may providing substantial proportion health services human resources health research agenda expanded beyond doctors nurses