doi:10.2471/BLT.08.058578 The numbers of migrating health workers have increased significantly over the past few decades and patterns of global migration have become more complex as increasing demand for health workers in the world’s wealthiest countries has resulted in large numbers of health workers migrating from lower-income countries to work in higher-income countries.1 Health worker migra...

Software companies depend heavily on knowledgeable employees. Competence and skills management are essential instruments to understand how to employ the available skills in an optimal way. Unfortunately, implementing knowledge management strategies like competence and skills management is challenging because resources, time and effort are required before benefits become visible. This paper show...

OBJECTIVE To measure progress in implementing co-trimoxazole prophylaxis (CTXp) (trimethoprim plus sulfamethoxazole) and isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) policy recommendations, identify barriers to the development of national policies and pinpoint challenges to implementation. METHODS In 2007 we conducted by e-mail a cross-sectional survey of World Health Organization (WHO) HIV/AIDS progra...

Seven years have passed since the BEPS Action Plan was launched by OECD, and 1 identified tax challenges derived from digitalization of economy as a relevant area to be addressed. However, no concrete recommendations were delivered and, in an increasingly digitized economy, countries started acting unilaterally. Against this situation, January 2019, stream work at OECD has changed apparently, n...

The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was implemented in May 2010. The present commentary offers some insights into what is known about the Code five years on, as well as its potential impact, drawing from interviews with health care and policy stakeholders from a number of 'source' and 'destination' countries.

One of the challenges in large scale distributed computing is to utilize the thousands of idle personal computers. In this paper, we present a system that enables users to e ortlessly and safely export their machines in a global market of processing capacity. E cient resource allocation is performed based on statistical machine pro les and leases are used to promote dynamic task placement. The ...

Fast Poisson solvers based on fast Fourier transform (FFT) computations are among the fastest techniques to solve Poisson equation on uniform grids. In this paper, the authors present two parallel distributed implementations of a 3-D fast Poisson solver in the context of the atmospheric simulation code. The first approach consists of implementing data movement between each computational step so...