Assessing human resources for health: what can be learned from labour force surveys?

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"AcknowledgementsAn earlier version of this article appeared as part of the Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series. The authors wish to thank the Luxembourg Income Study for having granted permission to use the information contained in the LIS/LES datasets for the present analysis. We are especially grateful to Paul Alkemade, David Jesuit and Teresa Munzi at the Luxembourg office for providing much technical support and expert advice during the course of our research, and to Eivind Hoffmann and André Medici for useful comments. Financial support for this research was provided by the World Health Organization. The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of WHO."