Worldwide assessment of healthcare personnel dealing with lymphoedema

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Table 1 Data for each continent for Fig. 2

Continent	Professionals^a	Physicians	Researchers	Population (in million)	Professionals/population (per million)	Physicians/population (per million)	Researchers/population (per million)
Europe	1310	739	550	833.9	1.57	0.89	0.66
North America	332	128	182	562.6	0.59	0.23	0.32
South America	314	281	33	414.1	0.76	0.68	0.08
Oceania	165	24	135	38.5	4.28	0.62	3.50
Asia	577	253	298	4222.9	0.14	0.06	0.07
Africa	323	26	221	1159.8	0.27	0.02	0.19

^aProfessionals are regarded as physicians, researchers and also other persons involved in the topic of lymphoedema such as stakeholders at the World Bank who provide money for lymphoedema research and education

ISSN: 2191-1991