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Health workers are vital to sustainable development goals and universal health coverage

BMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j1357 (Published 23 March 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j1357

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Re: Health workers are vital to sustainable development goals and universal health coverage

It will be extremely difficult to find enough and adequate candidates to train as health workers by 2030, if large percentages of available employees continue to lack basic numeracy and literacy skills, as OECD reports indicate.
In Developing Countries things might be even worse.
Reference
https://www.oecd.org/skills/Workers-with-low-skills.png

Competing interests: No competing interests

07 August 2017
Stavros Saripanidis
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece