Why do health labour market forces matter?;Pourquoi les effectifs du marché du travail de la santé sont-ils importants?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 841-846

  McPake, Barbara ^a   Maeda, Akiko ^b   Araújo, Edson Correia ^b   Lemiere, Christophe ^b   Maghraby, Atef El ^c   Cometto, Giorgio ^d  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Tunisia)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN RESOURCE; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; LABOR SUPPLY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRAINING;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL MARKETING; CAPACITY BUILDING; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY;

CAPACITY BUILDING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; POLICY;

EID: 84886999337     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.118794     Document Type: Article

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