全球卫生工作者缺口达3400万,女性占从业队伍七成却多集中于低薪岗位



自1990年以来全球卫生人力已增长近两倍,但目前全球仍面临卫生工作者短缺的问题。《柳叶刀-公共卫生》(The Lancet Public Health)最新发表的一项基于2023年全球疾病负担研究的分析显示,2023年共有1.221亿名卫生工作者,较1990年增幅近200%,女性贡献了卫生人力总增长量的70%以上。然而,女性仍主要集中于低薪岗位,大多数高级管理职位和临床领导职位仍由男性担任。卫生人力资源密度仍存在显著地区差异。未来需扩大培训规模、改善薪酬待遇,并制定能够促进性别平等的政策。识别图中二维码或点击文末阅读原文,查阅原文。
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C Agostinis Sobrinho reports grants or contracts from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal (grant: CEECINST/00093/2021/CP2815/CT0001 and grant: https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/PRR/06185/2025) outside the submitted work. M Aslam reports grants or contracts from Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund (XMUMRF): grant number XMUMRF/2025-C15/ITCM/0006 (project title: Therapeutic and Toxicity Evaluation of Selected Medicinal Herbs for NAFLD: Exploring the Inter-Organelle Contact Sites Modulation Theory; role: co-investigator; dates: January, 2025–December, 2027 [ongoing]), grant number XMUMRF/2023-C11/ISEM/0041 (project title: Children's Rights Education in the Early Years of Divorce: An Exploration of Adolescents’ Perspectives; role: co-investigator; dates: January, 2023–December, 2025 [ongoing]), and grant number XMUMRF/2026-C17/ITCM/0007; project title: Olfactory Stimulation and Autonomic Regulation in Menstrual Disorders; role: co-investigator; dates: January, 2026–December, 2028 [ongoing]) outside the submitted work (all internal XMUMRF research grants administered by Xiamen University Malaysia; funds disbursed to institutional research account only; no salary, honoraria, or personal payments to author). R Bai reports support for the present manuscript from the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Endocrine Glucose & Lipids Metabolism and Brain Aging, Ministry of Education (number 2023JYBZDSYS012). O C Baltatu reports support for the present manuscript from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Fellowship and from Anima Institute (AI) Research Professor Fellowship; leadership or fiduciary role in other board, society, committee, or advocacy group, paid or unpaid as Managing Partner, VividiWise Analytics and as Biotech Advisory Board Member, São José dos Campos Technology Park – CITE outside the submitted work. S Bhaskar reports grants or contracts from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI; grant ID: 23KF0126) and from JSPS and the Australian Academy of Science (JSPS International Fellowship; grant ID: P23712); payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing, or educational events from Japan Stroke Society, Japan (honoraria for invited keynote presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japan Stroke Society, Osaka) and from Semey Medical University, Kazakhstan (honorarium for invited professorship and teaching course in neurocardiovascular therapy, Semey Medical University, Kazakhstan); support for attending meetings and/or travel from Japan Stroke Society, Japan (travel award for invited keynote presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japan Stroke Society, Osaka) and from Asialink, the University of Melbourne (travel support for opening invited keynote at 31st Asialink Leaders Foundation Week Program 2026, Melbourne); leadership or fiduciary role in other board, society, committee, or advocacy group, paid or unpaid as District Chair, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Rotary District 9675, Sydney, Australia and as Chair, Founding Member and Manager, Global Health & Migration Hub Community, Global Health Hub Germany, Berlin, Germany and as Editorial Board Member, PLOS One, BMC Neurology, Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers in Stroke, Frontiers in Public Health, Journal of Aging Research, Neurology International, Diagnostics, and BMC Medical Research Methodology and as Member, College of Reviewers, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Government of Canada and as Director of Research, World Headache Society, Bengaluru, India and as Expert Adviser/Reviewer, Cariplo Foundation, Milan, Italy and as Visiting Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Department of Neurology, Division of Cerebrovascular Medicine and Neurology, Suita, Osaka, Japan and as Member, Scientific Review Committee, Cardiff University Biobank, Cardiff, UK and as Chair, Rotary Reconciliation Action Plan and as Healthcare and Medical Adviser, Japan Connect, Osaka, Japan outside the submitted work. 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I Ilic reports support for the present manuscript from Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia (number 451-03-137/2025-03/200110). N E Ismail reports leadership or fiduciary role in other board, society, committee or advocacy group, paid or unpaid as Bursar and Council member, Malaysian Academy of Pharmacy, Malaysia (unpaid); Committee Member, Malaysian Pharmacists Society Education Chapter Committee (unpaid); Deputy President, Information Technology Service Management Forum, Malaysian Chapter (unpaid); outside the submitted work. J J Jozwiak reports payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events from Novartis, Adamed, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Servier, Novo Nordisk, and MSD (all personal fees) outside the submitted work. K Krishan reports other financial or non-financial interests—non-financial support from the UGC Centre of Advanced Study, CAS II, awarded to the Department of Anthropology, and RUSA 2.O grant awarded by the Ministry of Education to Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, outside the submitted work. M-C Li reports grants or contracts from National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (NSTC 113-2314-B-003-002) and from National Taiwan Normal University (“Higher Education Sprout Project”); leadership or fiduciary role in other board, society, committee or advocacy group, paid or unpaid as Technical Editor, Journal of the American Heart Association outside the submitted work. J Liu reports support for the present manuscript from the Prevention and Control of Emerging and Major Infectious Diseases—National Science and Technology Major Project (2025ZD01900800), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Z24004), and the National Natural Science Foundation (72474005). R J Maude reports support for the present manuscript from Wellcome Trust (This research was funded in part, by the Wellcome Trust [315982/Z/24/Z]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. This grant provides core funding for Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research and contributes to RM's salary. RM is requested by Wellcome to include this text in the funding statement and cover letter of all manuscripts on which RM is a coauthor). S Nomura reports support for the present manuscript from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (grant number: 24H00663). B Oancea reports support for the present manuscript from UEFISCDI (project PN-IV-P6-6.1-CoEx-2024-0196, contract number 17/2.03.2026) and from the Romanian National Research, Development, and Innovation Plan 2022-2027 (project PNRR/2022/C9/MCID/I8 PROJECT CODE: 842027778, CF 68, PROJECT 760096). S K Panda reports support for the present manuscript from Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University; payment of salary); grants or contracts from file number 17-59/2023-24/CCRH/Tech./Coll./ICMR-Diabetes/960 (as Co-Investigator) and from file number HS/RC/393 (as Principal Investigator) outside the submitted work. 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V C F Pepito reports grants or contracts from St Luke's Medical Center Health Equity and Research Foundation (institutional grant to conduct research on measuring and understanding geographic inequities in physician distribution in the Philippines) and from St Luke's Medical Center Foundation Inc. (Individual contract to design and implement the St Luke's Community Physician Scholarship and Placement Program) outside the submitted work. S Saleem reports payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing, or educational events from Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan; outside the submitted work. F Shahkarami reports grants or contracts from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (FS was a researcher at TUMS and received payments and research grants from the university [until 2024]) and from Arena Life Science Co. (FS is a researcher at this pharmaceutical company and receives payments as an employee [since 2025]) outside the submitted work. 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DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(26)00145-3
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