Scaling-up skilled health professionals in the rural Indian public health system: projections for 2030
Yash Jawale, Siddhesh Zadey, Varad Puntambekar, Vedika Sharma, Vidhi Wadhwani, Rachit Sekhrajka, Amit Sahu, Nanditha Venkatesan, Aatmika Nair, Suraj Bhor, Sweta Dubey, Surabhi Dharmadhikari · 2026
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Yash Jawale and team projected how many skilled health workers rural India will need by 2030 and what closing the gap would cost. Their 2026 study tracks doctors, nurses, and midwives at rural primary-care and community clinics, using national Rural Health Statistics from 2009 to 2019. India already faces a shortage, and rural shortfalls had not been weighed against global development targets.
Skilled worker density grew about 2.59 percent per year and is set to rise from 8.85 per 10,000 people in 2019 to 11.47 per 10,000 people in 2030. Even so, India would still face a shortfall of roughly half a million workers at the low end and 1.83 million at the high end, costing an estimated 1.46 trillion rupees at the low end and 4.96 trillion at the high end to close. The authors argue that cost equals about 15 percent of government health spending, making scale-up feasible. The result is a state-aware planning baseline, not a hiring plan.
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| CREATOR | Yash Jawale, Siddhesh Zadey, Varad Puntambekar, Vedika Sharma, Vidhi Wadhwani, Rachit Sekhrajka, Amit Sahu, Nanditha Venkatesan, Aatmika Nair, Suraj Bhor, Sweta Dubey, Surabhi Dharmadhikari |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |