The phrase "a paucity of help" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a lack or shortage of assistance or support.
Example: "During the crisis, the team faced a paucity of help, making it difficult to manage the overwhelming workload."
Alternatives: "a lack of help" or "a shortage of assistance".
Many jurisdictions have undertaken large-scale pandemic planning; however, there is a paucity of tools available to help hospitals deal with the day to day challenges of surges in patient volumes.
In this case, they said it had more to do with a paucity of alternative ways of getting help.
Efforts to improve knowledge exchange have been hindered by a paucity of empirically-grounded guidance to help scientists and practitioners design and implement research programs that actively facilitate knowledge exchange.
Initially there was a paucity of tools and programmes to help health professionals learn evidence-based practice.
Evolution toward ground-living forms in Australasia and South America may have been helped by a paucity of mammalian carnivores that would normally be predatory on ground-living birds, which may partly explain why the extreme development of such forms has not occurred in Africa.
There is a paucity of data about the clinical characteristics that help identify patients at high risk of influenza infection upon ICU admission.
24 25 Historically, there has been a paucity of such research, despite its potential to help trialists understand the complexities and challenges arising from the social contexts in which trials are based.
Emergency care by specialists - each with treatments to sell, only some which can truly help - coupled with a paucity of primary care-givers, leaves many people confused, without a familiar face when they confront pneumonia, cancer, a heart attack or stroke.
Danzell went without help for months, because there is a paucity of appropriate, high quality mental health services in the District.
I also noticed a paucity of adverbs and adjectives -- another Winkler bugaboo -- which does help keep the copy clean and clear, if a little bloodless.
