Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Are doctors and nurses associated with coverage of essential health services in developing countries? A cross-sectional study | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Are doctors and nurses associated with coverage of essential health services in developing countries A cross-sectional study Margaret E Kruk 1 2 Marta R Prescott3 Helen de Pinho2 and Sandro Galea3 Open Access Address University of Michigan School of Public Health Department of Health Management and Policy Ann Arbor Michigan USA 2Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program Heilbrunn Department of Population Family Health Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University New York New York USA and 3University of Michigan School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology Ann Arbor Michigan USA Email Margaret E Kruk - mkruk@ Marta R Prescott - mrpresco@ Helen de Pinho - hd2122@ Sandro Galea - sgalea@ Corresponding author Published 31 March 2009 Received 21 January 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 27 doi 1478-4491-7-27 Accepted 31 March 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 27 2009 Kruk et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background There is broad policy consensus that a shortage of doctors and nurses is a key constraint to increasing utilization of essential health services important for achieving the health Millennium Development Goals. However there is limited research on the quantitative links between health workers and service coverage rates. We examined the relationship between doctor and nurse concentrations and utilization rates of five essential health services in developing countries. Methods We performed cross-national analyses of low- and middle-income countries by means of ordinary least squares regression with coverage rates of .
