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Women Drive Global Health Workforce Growth, Yet 34 Million Worker Shortage Persists
Key Takeaways
- Women represent 68.9% of global health workers and drove 71.4% of workforce growth since 1990.
- Global health workforce nearly tripled from 40.9 million to 122.1 million between 1990 and 2023.
- A shortage of 34.4 million health workers persists, especially in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
- Study provides first sex-disaggregated estimates of 20 health worker cadres across 204 countries.
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DT Editorial Team··via medicalxpress.com