Improving the Rural-Urban Balance in Cambodia’s Health Services

Kobashi, Yurie; Chou, Kimhab; Slaiman, Novy; Neun, Phannoch; Hayashi, Yoshifumi; Tsubokura, Masaharu; Okawada, Manabu

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2020.136

Improving the Rural-Urban Balance in Cambodia’s Health Services

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

Yurie Kobashi ¹^{, 2}

Kimhab Chou ³

Novy Slaiman ¹

Phannoch Neun ¹

Yoshifumi Hayashi ⁴

Masaharu Tsubokura ²

Manabu Okawada ⁵

¹ Department of General Internal Medicine, Sunrise Japan Hospital Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

² Department of Public Health, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

³ Department of Medicine, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Sunrise Japan Hospital Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Sunrise Japan Hospital Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

10.34172/ijhpm.2020.136

Keywords

Regional Disparity

Global Health

Workforce

Dear Editor,

A qualified health workforce that is available, equitably distributed and accessible to all is indispensable for maintaining the ability of national health systems to provide universal health coverage.¹Nevertheless, worldwide, healthcare professionals tend to concentrate in urban areas, causing significant regional disparities in health services.² ... (Read more...)

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