The New Health Professionals: Three Examples

New data on African health professionals abroad

BACKGROUND The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to developed countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the causes and effects of the phenomenon has been hampered by a lack of systematic data on the extent of African health workers' international movements. METHODS We use destination-country census data to estimate the number of African-...

New Health Professionals Network: the future face of medicine.

Approval voting: three examples

In this paper we discuss three examples of approval voting games. The first one illustrates that a stronger solution concept than perfection is needed for a strategic analysis of this type of games. The second example shows that sophisticated voting can imply that the Condorcet winner gets no vote. The third example shows the possibility of insincere voting being a stable equilibrium.

Health professionals for the future

Recommendations for an intersectoral policy for the education of health professionals have recently been stated in the Lancet Report “Health professionals for a new century” and by the WHO policy framework “Health 2020”. These postulates were further developed into an educational strategy by the Careum Foundation. In this framework four mutually dependent perspectives were defined: functions re...

New Emergency Response Training for Environmental Health Professionals.

Nearly 10 years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Environmental Health Ser­ vices Branch (EHSB) delivered the first En­ vironmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) Awareness Level course at the National Environmental Health Associa­ tion’s 2006 Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas. Based on the tremendous success of this intr...