Monitoring Sub-Saharan African physician migration and recruitment post-adoption of the WHO code of practice: Temporal and geographic patterns in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Tankwanchi, Akhenaten Benjamin Siankam ^a,c   Vermund, Sten H ^b   Perkins, Douglas D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIGRATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; POLICY; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICS; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRENDS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PHYSICIANS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84929485410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124734     Document Type: Article

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