{"id":11662,"date":"2021-03-19T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:40:31","slug":"commentary-strengthening-human-resources-for-health-in-resource-limited-countries-the-case-of-medic-to-medic-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11662","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Strengthening human resources for health in resource-limited countries: The case of Medic to Medic in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fanuel Meckson Bickton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-MSc Intern, Lung Health, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong>Medic to Medic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa has a critical health worker shortage. As a whole, the continent has only 2% of the global supply of physicians though it weathers 24% of the world\u2019s disease burden.\u00a0 \u00a0Similar demands exist for other health worker cadres including nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and pharmacists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Journal Identifiers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>eISSN: 1995-7262<br>print ISSN: 1995-7262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/185361-Article-Text-471434-1-10-20190405.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fanuel Meckson Bickton Pre-MSc Intern, Lung Health, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi Keywords:\u00a0Medic to Medic Abstract Africa has a critical health worker shortage. As a whole, the continent has only 2% of the global supply of physicians though it weathers 24% of the world\u2019s disease burden.\u00a0 \u00a0Similar demands exist for other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11664,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}