Utility of the Right to Health for Addressing Skilled Health Worker Shortages in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As a fundamental human right, the right to health (RTH) can influence state actors' behaviour towards health inequities. Human rights advocates have invoked the RTH in a collective demand for improved access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Similarly, scholars have used the RTH as a framework for analysing health problems. However, its utility for addressing skilled health worker (SHW) shortages in LMICs has been understudied. Realising that SHW shortages occur due to existing push-and-pull factors within and between LMICs and high-income countries (HICs), we sought to answer the question: "how, why, and under what circumstance does the RTH offer utility for addressing SHW shortages in LMICs?"

Methods

We conducted a realist synth

SUBMITTER: Yakubu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9818093 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature