Can the WHO code on international recruitment succeed?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7750, 2010, Pages 791-793

  Buchan, James ^a  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INCOME; NURSE; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77950676611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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