Effect of UK policy on medical migration: a time series analysis of physician registration data

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Blacklock, Claire ^a   Heneghan, Carl ^a   Mant, David ^a   Ward, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Doctors; Migration; Policy; Recruitment; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866549016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-10-35     Document Type: Article

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