Addressing the migration of health professionals: the role of working conditions and educational placements

Managing In- and Out-Migration of Health Workforce in Selected Countries in South East Asia Region

Background There is an increasing trend of international migration of health professionals from low- and middle- income countries to high-income countries as well as across middle-income countries. The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was created to better address health workforce development and the ethical conduct of international recruitment. T...

Investigating the effect of adverse working conditions on the incidence of spontaneous abortion in the staff of operating room and nursing departments of Isfahan's educational hospitals: A descriptive analytical retrospective study

Introduction: Among working women, health care professionals are more exposed to environmental factors and adverse working conditions than women working in other occupations. A large group of health professionals are nurses and operating room staff who provide services in hospitals. For this purpose, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of adverse working conditions on the ...

Addressing the Shortage of Health Professionals in Rural China: Issues and Progress; Comment on “Have Health Human Resources Become More Equal between Rural and Urban Areas after the New Reform?”

Maldistribution of health professionals between urban and rural areas has been a serious problem in China. Urban hospitals attract most of the health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas. To address this issue, a number of policies have been implemented by the government, such as free medical education in exchange for obligatory rural service.

A Response to the Commentary Entitled: “Addressing the Shortage of Health Professionals in Rural China: Issues and Progress”

Attitude toward migrate abroad in Iranian medical community: a qualitative study

  Intellectual and human capital is one of the main foundations of the countries' growth and development, and the lack of such capital makes development process difficult. The migration of specialists and scientists and its trend as elite migration, especially the migration of physicians, is one of the problems that has plagued the scientific management policy of many countries around the worl...