Cameroon public health sector: shortage and inequalities in geographic distribution of health personnel

Table 1 The density of health personnel-to-population per 1,000, per region and Gini index per cadre.2011

Occupation regions	General public health personnel	Physicians	Nurses	Paramedics	Pharmacist	Administration	Social assistant agents	Community pharmacist agents	Support staff	Ratio of nurses per physician per region
Adamawa	0.84	0.04	0.59	0.12	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.05	15.7
Centre	1.97	0.18	0.92	0.27	0.01	0.19	0.02	0.02	0.35	5.00
East	1.35	0.06	0.85	0.20	0.00	0.05	0.03	0.04	0.11	14.50
Extreme North	0.78	0.02	0.40	0.08	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.04	0.18	20.00
Littoral	1.29	0.10	0.66	0.17	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.04	0.28	6.400
North	0.50	0.01	0.31	0.05	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.03	0.07	21.50
North West	1.05	0.04	0.50	0.12	0.00	0.06	0.03	0.07	0.22	12.30
West	1.72	0.05	0.97	0.21	0.00	0.04	0.06	0.11	0.29	19.00
South	1.36	0.08	0.80	0.21	0.00	0.09	0.02	0.03	0.14	10.60
South West	1.69	0.05	0.87	0.17	0.01	0.05	0.01	0.07	0.46	16.00
Total	1.29	0.07	0.67	0.16	0.00	0.06	0.02	0.05	0.24	9.10
Gini Index	0.3535	0.5278	0.3077	0.3662	0.5764	0.5072	0.504	0.3523	0.4276	-

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