... 1University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program Heilbrunn Department of Population ... part because of data availability [17,18]. The causes of health worker shortages in developing countries aremultifactorial and include insufficient medical and nurs-ing training, job attrition ... J, Mavalankar D, Mridha MK,Anwar I, Achadi E, Adjei S, Padmanabhan P, Van Lerberghe W, LancetMaternal Survival Series steering group: Going to scale with pro-fessional skilled care. The Lancet...