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Mapping human resources for health

Continuing our journey through the health systems lingo, consider these images, courtesy of World Mapper, which map the world based on the numbers.  We commonly use these images at the organization where I work to underscore the disparity of human resources for health in the regions of the world where the disease burden is greatest.

Total population:

world-mapper-population

HIV Prevalence:

hiv-prevalence

Malaria Cases:

malaria-cases

Doctors Working:

doctors-working

Nurses Working:

nurses-working

 

Author

Cynthia Schweer Rayner

Cynthia Schweer Rayner is an independent consultant and philanthropy advisor specializing in public health, social entrepreneurship and scalable business models for positive social change. As a recovering management consultant, she spent several months living in South Africa, and later co-founded the US branch of an organization providing support to orphaned and vulnerable children. In 2009, she was an LGT Venture Philanthropy Fellow, working with mothers2mothers (m2m), a multinational non-profit organization employing mothers living with HIV as peer educators to positive pregnant women. She currently works with individuals, companies and nonprofits to finance and develop models for positive change. Cynthia has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Cape Town and visits New York frequently, where she co-owns a Manhattan-based yoga studio, mang'Oh yoga (www.mangohstudio.com).