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10 Facts About the Health Care Worker Shortage 1) A lack of skilled attendants at birth accounts for two million preventable maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths each year. i 2) Fifty-seven countries, mostly in Africa and Asia face a severe health care worker shortage of a total of 4 million health care workers, including at least 2.3 million physicians, nurses and midwives. ii 3) In order to meet Millennium Development Goal 5 there is a need for 700,000 more skilled birth attendants. iii (Accredited health professionals who have been educated and trained in the skills needed to manage normal pregnancies, childbirth and the post-natal period and in identifying, managing and referring complications in women and newborns). 4) In Africa and South East Asia less than 50% of births have a skilled attendant. iv In the United States 95% of births have a skilled attendant present. v 5) Sub Saharan Africa has only 3% of the total global health workforce but has 24% of the global burden of disease. In order to meet minimum threshold an estimated 1.5 million more health care workers are needed. vi 6) In the United States there are 2.56 doctors per 1,000 people. The countries highlighted in the film, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Guatemala, all face health care worker shortages: vii ■ Tanzania has 0.02 doctors per 1,000 people. ■ Bangladesh has 0.26 doctors per 1,000 people. ■ Guatemala has 0.90 doctors per 1,000 people. 7) Every year 20,000 health care professionals are estimated to emigrate from Africa annually. viii 8) Rural areas are harder hit than urban areas. While about half of the world’s populations live in rural areas, 75% of the doctors are in urban areas. ix 9) Over 90 percent of C-sections in rural areas of Mozambique and Malawi now are performed successfully by non physician clinicians, clinicians who are not doctors who have been trained to perform c-sections, Their safety record is equal to that of obstetrician/gynecologists. x 10) There are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in Ethiopia. xi
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10 Facts About the Health Care Worker Shortage 1) A lack of skilled attendants at birth accounts for two million preventable maternal
deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths each year.i
2) Fifty-seven countries, mostly in Africa and Asia face a severe health care worker shortage of a total of 4 million health care workers, including at least 2.3 million physicians, nurses and midwives.ii
3) In order to meet Millennium Development Goal 5 there is a need for 700,000 more
skilled birth attendants.iii (Accredited health professionals who have been educated and trained in the skills needed to manage normal pregnancies, childbirth and the post-natal period and in identifying, managing and referring complications in women and newborns).
4) In Africa and South East Asia less than 50% of births have a skilled attendant.iv In the United States 95% of births have a skilled attendant present.v
5) Sub Saharan Africa has only 3% of the total global health workforce but has 24% of the global burden of disease. In order to meet minimum threshold an estimated 1.5 million more health care workers are needed.vi
6) In the United States there are 2.56 doctors per 1,000 people. The countries highlighted in the film, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Guatemala, all face health care worker shortages:vii
■ Tanzania has 0.02 doctors per 1,000 people. ■ Bangladesh has 0.26 doctors per 1,000 people. ■ Guatemala has 0.90 doctors per 1,000 people.
7) Every year 20,000 health care professionals are estimated to emigrate from Africa annually.viii
8) Rural areas are harder hit than urban areas. While about half of the world’s populations live in rural areas, 75% of the doctors are in urban areas.ix
9) Over 90 percent of C-sections in rural areas of Mozambique and Malawi now are
performed successfully by non physician clinicians, clinicians who are not doctors who have been trained to perform c-sections, Their safety record is equal to that of obstetrician/gynecologists.x
10) There are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in Ethiopia.xi
ii Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (2010, June 4). Lack of skilled birth care costs 2 million lives each year worldwide, study estimates. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 5, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2010/06/100603193929.htm ii World Health Organization. Fact sheet: migration of health workers. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2006. iii World Health Organization. Making Pregnancy Safer: Skilled Birth Attendants ivWorld Health Organization. Accelerating Progress towards the Health-Related Millenium Development Goals. v Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 2008 Skilled Birth Attendants. http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/resources/datasets/2010/mortality/results/maternal/maps/interactive.html Last Accessed 1/27/2011 vi Health Worker Shortage Could Derail Development Goals. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (83:1) Jan 2005. vii Earth Trends. Population, Health and Human Well-being — Public Health: Physicians per 100,000 people Units: Physicians per 100,000 people. http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/population-health/variable-1297.html viii UNFPA. Finding ways to deliver when doctors are in short supply. 14 July 2009. http://www.unfpa.org/public/site/global/lang/en/pid/3086 Last Accessed 1/23/2010 ix World Health Organization 2006: Taking Stock: The Global Health Care Shortage and the Response to AIDS. http://www.who.int/hiv/toronto2006/takingstockttr.pdf x Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (2010, June 4). Lack of skilled birth care costs 2 million lives each year worldwide, study estimates. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 5, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2010/06/100603193929.htm xi Financial Times, 16 July 2004, cited in International Office of Migration World Migration Report 2005.
