The shortage and poor distribution of human resources, especially in rural and suburban locations, further aggravates this situation.
For example, we noted poor distribution of health-care resources in village settings.
This 'brain drain' exacerbates the poor distribution of health and financial resources in already resource constrained and disease burdened health systems (48).
At low levels of mixing poor separation is due to poor distribution of the flocculant molecules.
Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda reported poor distribution of staff.
Inequity at the district level is likely to contribute to inequity at the individual level: research studies indicate that Indonesia has one of the least pro poor distributions of public health resources in the region [ 16].
Important problems of public health systems in these countries are services of poor quality, inequitable distribution of resources and services, inadequate procurement systems and inefficient supervision coupled with a high disease burden [ 2- 4].
This is not the case in most developing countries where health facilities in general are characterised by poor infrastructure, management problems, unequal distribution of resources and high numbers of people seeking treatment, and in the case of South Africa accentuated by the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the population.
This is also the case in most developing countries where public-sector health facilities in general are characterized by poor infrastructure, management problems, unequal distribution of resources and high numbers of people seeking treatment, accentuated by the high prevalence of HIV and AIDS in most populations on the continent, and in South Africa in particular [ 17].
Marmot's observations around health outcomes for the poor in relation to the unequal distribution of resources in wealthy societies [ 8] have been placed into global Indigenous perspective by the work of Gracey, King and Smith [ 3, 4].
