Equality in Distribution of Human Resources: the Case of Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education

Background: Background: Equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. The fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study.Methods: We evaluated the equity of human resources’ distri...

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Published inIranian journal of public health Vol. 42; no. Suppl; pp. 161 - 165
Main Authors R Khalilnejad, T Kashkalani, A Hassani, H Mobarak, E Ehsani Chimeh
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tehran University of Medical Sciences 01.01.2013
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Distribution
Human Recourse
Inequality
Iran
Lorenz Curve
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Summary:Background: Background: Equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. The fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study.Methods: We evaluated the equity of human resources’ distribution among Iran’s medical science universities between 2005 and 2009 by inequality measures including Lorenze curve, Gini coefficient and Rabin hood indexes.Results: In the distribution 60403 recruitment licenses among medical universities with 72456140 covered populations, Gini coefficient was 0.167 and Robin Hood Index 0.11.Conclusions: Calculations indicated Recruitment licenses are equitably distributed in MOH&ME of Iran. However a portion of recruitment licenses should redistributed for achieving perfect equal distribution among all public medical universities of Iran.
ISSN:2251-6085
2251-6093