Table 4.

Percentage of health professionals without the requisite qualifications and the adjusted estimates of health workers, total number and per 10 000 population

Health worker category	Health professional not with requisite qualifications (%)*	Total number of HRH after adjusting for education	Density of HRH per 10 000 population after adjusting for education
Allopathic physician	24	585 411	4.5
Dental practice	8	88 282	0.7
AYUSH	21	419 426	3.2
Physiotherapy, diagnostic and others	45	47 579	0.4
Nursing and midwife	58	553 421	4.2
Health associate professional†	62	308 463	2.3
Pharmacist	62	81 603	0.6
Total	54	2 084 185	15.8

Source: authors’ estimates using unit-level data of National Sample Survey Organisation 2011–2012.

*The level of required qualifications considered for doctors (allopathic, dental and AYUSH) was graduate/postgraduate in medicine, for nurse and midwife higher secondary with technical education in medicine or related field, and for others higher secondary with technical education in paramedical related fields.¹⁵

†Includes health assistants, sanitarians, dietitians and nutritionists, optometrists and opticians, dental assistants, physiotherapy associates, pharmacist assistants, and so on.

AYUSH, indigenous Indian system of medicine comprising Ayurvedic, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy; HRH, human resource for health.