Number of nursing personnel (WHO)

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Data type Numeric
Scale Metric
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name health_hc_provision_nur_num_who
Category Health and long-term care
Label Number of nursing personnel (WHO)
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Persons who have completed a programme of basic nursing education and are qualified and registered or authorized to provide responsible and competent service for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick, and rehabilitation, and are actually working in the country. Nursing personnel includes professional nurses, auxiliary nurses, enrolled nurses and related occupations such as dental nurses and primary care nurses.


Coding rules

Coding rules in accordance with WHO operationalisation.


Bibliographic info

Citation: World Health Organization (WHO). 2019. "The Global Health Observatory." https://www.who.int/data/gho.


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Project manager(s): Gabriela de Carvalho, Achim Schmid


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