Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico.

Julio César Montañez-HernándezJacqueline Elizabeth Alcalde-RabanalGustavo Humberto Nigenda-LópezGladis Patricia Aristizábal-HoyosLorena Dini

Published in: Human resources for health (2020)

We provide evidence of the existence of gender gaps among physicians and nurses in the labor market with evident disadvantages for female physicians, particularly in labor wastage. In addition, our results suggest that the lack of physicians and nurses working in the health sector contributes to the inability to reach the health worker density threshold proposed by the Global Strategy.

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