Task shifting in health care in resource-poor countries
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Task-shifting to the least costly health worker capable of doing the task reliably is supported by good evidence and compelling logic.
“There are good evidence and compelling logic to support the allocation of tasks in health-system delivery to the least costly health worker capable of doing that task reliably (20).”
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“There are good evidence and compelling logic to support the allocation of tasks in health-system delivery to the least costly health worker capable of doing that task reliably (20).”
Background
- Authors
- McPake, B., & Mensah, K.
- Affiliations
- Queen Margaret University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- McPake, Barbara
- ORCID
- McPake, Barbara
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-09
- Volume
- 372
- Issue
- 9642
- Pages
- 870-871
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W2059881801
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 14.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Queen Margaret University Publications Repository (Queen Margaret University) (acceptedVersion)
- Queen Margaret University Publications Repository (Queen Margaret University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health and Surgery
- Keywords
- task shifting, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, resource-poor countries, health workforce deployment, scaling up health interventions
- MeSH terms
- Allied Health Personnel, Developing Countries, Health Resources, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, Patient Care Team, Primary Health Care, Quality of Health Care
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