Health hc provision mid num who

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	Number
Technical name	health_hc_provision_mid_num_who
Category	Health and long-term care
Label	Number of midwifery personnel (WHO)
Related indicators	NA (no information available)

Persons who have completed a programme of midwifery education and have acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally licensed to practise midwifery, and are actually working in the country.  The persons may or may not have prior nursing education. Midwifery personnel includes professional midwives, auxiliary midwives, enrolled midwives and related occupations

Coding rules

Coding rules in accordance with WHO operationalisation.

Bibliographic info

Citation: World Health Organization (WHO). 2018. "The Global Health Observatory." https://www.who.int/data/gho.

Related publications: NA (no information available)

Misc

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Data release: NA (no information available)

Revisions: NA (no information available)

Sources

World Health Organization (WHO). 2018. "The Global Health Observatory." https://www.who.int/data/gho.