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Table 4 Practitioners per million population in 2011, by cadre, inside and outside capital cities

From: Mapping human resources for eye health in 21 countries of sub-Saharan Africa: current progress towards VISION 2020

 

n countries

Country mean

Inside capital

Outside capital

mean

(range)

mean

(range)

Ophthalmologists

20

1.8

10.8

(2.0 to 29.7)

0.7

(0.0 to 3.2)

Cataract Surgeons

18

1.1

2.3

(0.0 to 12.1)

1.0

(0.0 to 9.5)

All surgeons

20

2.8

12.9

(4.0 to 29.7)

1.7

(0.2 to 9.5)

OCOs

7

3.0

8.5

(0.0 to 19.9)

2.4

(0.3 to 6.5)

Ophthalmic Nurses

17

9.0

19.3

(1.2 to 69.3)

7.6

(0.0 to 39.5)

All OCOs/Nurses

19

9.2

20.5

(1.2 to 69.3)

7.7

(0.7 to 39.5)

Optometrists

15

2.0

10.6

(0.0 to 51.8)

0.9

(0.0 to 3.8)

Mid-level refractionists

16

2.6

8.4

(0.0 to 39.6)

1.8

(0.0 to 8.6)

All refractionists

16

4.2

16.7

(0.0 to 64.4)

2.5

(0.0 to 9.3)

  1. Table legend: ‘0’ practitioners in countries where individual cadres do not exist have been excluded in analyses of mean proportions for individual cadres and considered to be zero when cadres are combined. Botswana: location data for ophthalmic nurses comes from the government sector only. Ghana: data on ophthalmologists and optometrists does not include practitioners in the private sector. Malawi: ‘capital’ was interpreted as the three largest cities in the country. Uganda: data for mid-level refractionists does not include practitioners in the private sector. Figures in bold indicate ratios for combined categories of practitioners.
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