Strategies to manage migration of health professionals to protect national health systems will be successful only if all stakeholders are involved in the process

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 621-622

  Schmid, Karoline ^a  

^a División de Desarrollo Sostenible y Asentamientos Humanos de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe   (Trinidad and Tobago)

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Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION POLICY; LABOR MIGRATION; STAKEHOLDER; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; IMMIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRATION; NOTE;

EID: 4243169996     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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