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Author Carpio, Carmen, author.

Title The health workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean : an analysis of Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay / Carmen Carpio and Natalia Santiago Bench
Published Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 107 pages) : illustrations
Series Directions in development. Human development
Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
Contents The global health workplace -- Health sector overview in the six focus countries -- Financing of the health workforce -- Organization of the health workforce -- Management of the health workforce -- Regulation of the health workforce -- Performance of the health workforce
Summary This report provides a status update on the human resources for health (HRH) sub-system in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. The report structures its discussion around how the health workforce is financed, organized, managed, regulated, and performing. In the area of financing, the study presents the variety of contracting mechanisms, salary levels, and financial incentives offered across the countries and their role in being able to attract and retain health workers. On the organization of the HRH sub-system, the report look
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2015)
Subject Medical personnel -- Caribbean Area
Public health personnel -- Caribbean Area
Medical personnel -- Peru
Public health personnel -- Peru
Medical personnel -- Uruguay
Public health personnel -- Uruguay
Medical care -- Economic aspects -- Caribbean Area
Medical care -- Economic aspects -- Peru
Medical care -- Economic aspects -- Uruguay
Health Workforce
Health Care Sector -- economics
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Medical economics
Medical personnel
Public health personnel
SUBJECT Caribbean Region
Peru
Uruguay
Subject Caribbean Area
Peru
Uruguay
Form Electronic book
Author Bench, Natalia Santiago, author
World Bank, issuing body.
LC no. 2015012594
ISBN 9781464805950
1464805954
1464805946
9781464805943