Addressing the migration of health professionals: The role of working conditions and educational placements

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Witt, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIGRATION; REVIEW; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; FOREIGN WORKER; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; STATISTICS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 72749119322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-S1-S7     Document Type: Review

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