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.