Author | Year | Demand for nurses | Supply | Policy environment of private nurse production | ||
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Stock of nurses | Number of nurses produced in private sector | Production capacity of private nurse institutions | ||||
The Kenya Health Workforce Project [24] | 2012 | Â | Â | Â | 35 (51%) of total 68 nursing institutions were privately run. | Â |
More staff in private institutions than public institutions (tutor-student ratio 1:14 in private and 1:40 in public) | ||||||
Kanchanachitra C, et al. [7] | 2011 | Acceleration of nursing production to achieve MDGs | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Rao M, et al. [8] | 2011 | Economic growth | Â | Â | 95% of all nurses produced by private institutions | Â |
Introduction of UHC | ||||||
Realignment of health system focusing on primary health care | Â | Â | Quality of nurses produced in private sector due to shortage of staff and facilities | |||
Increase in NCD prevalence | ||||||
Ndumbe NP [10] | 2011 | To serve primary health care | Â | Â | Â | Â |
To achieve MDGs | ||||||
To reach minimum acceptable population coverage | ||||||
Rao DT [15] | 2011 | Towards UHC | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Focusing on primary health care | ||||||
Increase in NCD prevalence | ||||||
To achieve MDGs | ||||||
The Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) [22] | 2011 | Â | Maldistribution - density in Bangkok 5 times higher than the rest of the country | Thailand - new graduates from private sector - increase of 24.1% between 2006 and 2010 | Â | India - nursing council regulates facilitated scaling up of nurse production. |
Bangdiwala S, et al. [16] | 2010 | To serve primary health care | Â | Â | Â | Â |
To achieve MDGs | ||||||
Wibulpolprasert S, et al. [23] | 2010 | Â | Â | Â | 10 (14%) out of 64 nursing schools were privately run. | Â |
Gross JM, et al. [12] | 2010 | To serve primary health care | Â | Â | Â | Kenya - national plan to speed up hiring new nurses and utilizing public-private partnership |
To achieve MDGs | ||||||
Pagaiya N and Noree T [4] | 2009 | Changing demographics, economics and epidemiology | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Towards UHC | ||||||
To serve primary health care | ||||||
Expansion of private provision due to medical hub policy | ||||||
George G, et al. [20] | 2009 | Â | Maldistribution and shortage in underserved area | Â | Â | Â |
Krupp K and Madhivanan P [17] | 2009 | To achieve MDGs | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Matsuno A [27] | 2009 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Thailand - private institutions produced nurses for their own hospitals. |
Adano U [13] | 2008 | Epidemiological changes | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Increase in public health care services | ||||||
Wadee H and Khan F [21] | 2007 | Â | Maldistribution and shortage of nurses | Â | Â | Â |
Connell J, et al. [11] | 2007 | Demographic changes | Â | Â | Â | Â |
WHO [5] | 2007 | Demographic and epidemiological changes | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Khadria B [18] | 2007 | Increasing international outward migration | Â | Â | Â | India, support of working abroad |
India, state government facilitates export market | ||||||
Kirigia JM, et al. [19] | 2006 | International brain drain | Â | Â | Â | Â |
to achieve MDGs | ||||||
Subedar H [9] | 2005 | Epidemiological factors | Maldistribution and shortage of nurses | South Africa - private sector produced 66.3% of enrolled nurses in 2004 | Â | Â |
Academy for Nursing Studies, Hyderabad [6] | 2005 | Economic growth | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Increase in primary health care services | ||||||
Epidemiological changes | ||||||
Jindawatana A, et al. [25] | 1998 | Â | Â | Â | Lower quality of private graduation | Mandatory rural service |
Quality assurance and accreditation to oversee both public and private production | ||||||
Chunharas S, et a l. [26] | 1997 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Efficient management through stakeholder interface |
 |  |  |  |  |  | Mandatory rural service |