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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2011 - 09:34:32 EDT
20 years old Eritrea fares better than India, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and a
few others.
Report canbe acceesed here
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/HealthWorkerIndexmain.pdf
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_16352.htm
Health Workers Reach Index
Our major new health workers index, ranking the best and worst countries for
a child to fall sick in.
Published September 2011
A major new health workers index by Save the Children has ranked the best
and worst countries for a child to fall sick in — with Chad and Somalia at
the bottom and Switzerland and Finland at the top.
The index measures not only how many health workers there are, but also
their reach and impact.
It shows that children living in the bottom 20 countries — which fall below
the WHO minimum threshold of just over two health workers for every thousand
people – are five times more likely to die than those further up the index.
Released two weeks in advance of a crucial UN meeting in New York, the index
highlights countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone where
millions of children could die simply because of a lack of trained health
workers.
Download our media briefing, which includes the Health Workers Reach Index
(PDF 2.3MB).
Download our report for more information on how the index was calculated and
country-specific results (PDF 989KB).
Download the full data table from which the index was derived (PDF 498KB).
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