title: Equality in Distribution of Human Resources: the Case of Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. The fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study.
  
  
  METHODS
  We evaluated the equity of human resources' distribution among Iran's medical science universities between 2005 and 2009 by inequality measures including Lorenze curve, Gini coefficient and Rabin hood indexes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the distribution 60403 recruitment licenses among medical universities with 72456140 covered populations, Gini coefficient was 0.167 and Robin Hood Index 0.11.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Calculations indicated Recruitment licenses are equitably distributed in MOH&ME of Iran. However a portion of recruitment licenses should redistributed for achieving perfect equal distribution among all public medical universities of Iran.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Rehabilitation School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran ; Dept. of Human & Supportive Resources, Deputy of Development and Resource Management, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mobaraki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hassani
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kashkalani
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khalilnejad
authors.forename: E Ehsani
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Chimeh
keywords: Distribution; Human Recourse; Inequality; Iran; Lorenz curve