Characterization and distribution of medicine vendors in 2 states in Nigeria: implications for scaling health workforce and family planning services

• Published in: Human resources for health Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 60 - 12
• Main Authors: Daini, Babajide Oluseyi, Okafor, Emeka, Baruwa, Sikiru, Adeyanju, Oluwafunmito, Diallo, Rodio, Anyanti, Jennifer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 01.05.2021; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Birth control; Brain drain; Censuses; Commodities; Distribution; Drugstores; Employment; Family planning; Family Planning Services; Global positioning systems; GPS; Health care; Health care industry; Health Services; Health workers; Health Workforce; Human resource management; Humans; Licensing, certification and accreditation; Local government; Medical training; Medicine; Nigeria; Nonprescription Drugs; Nurses; Pharmacists; Physicians; PPMVs; Primary care; Public health; Registration; Services; Stocking; Task-shifting; Training; Workers; Workforce; Nigeria; Africa; Family planning; Task-shifting; Medical training; PPMVs; Health workers; Stocking

In 2014, Nigeria issued the task-shifting/sharing policy for essential health services, which aimed to fill the human resource gap and improve the delivery of health services across the country. This study focuses on the characteristics, spread, and family planning (FP) stocking practices of medicin...