Equality in Distribution of Human Resources: the Case of Iran’S Ministry of Health and Medical Education

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 coveredpopulations, 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.