Contribution of health workforce to health outcomes: empirical evidence from Vietnam.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Vietnam, a lower-middle income country, while the overall skill- and knowledge-based quality of health workforce is improving, health workers are disproportionately distributed across different economic regions. A similar trend appears to be in relation to health outcomes between those regions. It is unclear, however, whether there is any relationship between the distribution of health workers and the achievement of health outcomes in the context of Vietnam. This study examines the statistical relationship between the availability of health workers and health outcomes across the different economic regions in Vietnam.

Methods

We constructed a panel data of six economic regions covering 8 years (2006-2013) and used principal components analysis regressions to est

SUBMITTER: Nguyen MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5112617 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature