Monday, May 3, 2010

[EQ] Retaining health workers in remote and rural areas

 

This issue:
Addresses the special theme of retaining health workers in remote and rural areas

Volume 88, Number 5, May 2010, 321-400
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/5/en/index.html

Chile; Combined incentives work; Cuba; Calling all doctors; Ghana; Incentives for medical students; Kenya, South Africa & Thailand; Attracting nurses to rural areas; Norway; Dealing with doctor shortages; Ethiopia and Rwanda ; Who wants a rural health post? ; Nigeria; Pilot insurance plan; Rising to the challenge; Senegal; Solving regional differences; Global; Where have all the nurses gone?; Decentralized health financing; Does compulsory service work?; Getting staff to stay in rural areas; The role of medical schools;Where do we stand on the Millennium Development Goals?
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EDITORIALS

One piece of the puzzle to solve the human resources for health crisis
- Manuel M Dayrit et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078485
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Striking the right balance: health workforce retention in remote and rural areas
- Lincoln C Chen doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078477
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Five years to go and counting: progress towards the Millennium Development Goals
- Carla AbouZahr & Ties Boerma doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078451
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RESEARCH

Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment
- Margaret E Kruk et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072892 Full article text [HTML]

Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda
- Pieter Serneels et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072728  Full article text [HTML]

Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas: a multicountry discrete choice experiment
- D Blaauw et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072918 Full article text [HTML]

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Increasing access to health workers in underserved areas: a conceptual framework for measuring results
- Luis Huicho et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070920 Full article text [HTML]

Compulsory service programmes for recruiting health workers in remote and rural areas: do they work?
- Seble Frehywot et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071605 Full article text [HTML]

The Chilean Rural Practitioner Programme: a multidimensional strategy to attract and retain doctors in rural areas
- Sebastian Peña et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072769 Full article text [HTML]

Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas
- Carmen Dolea et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070607 Full article text [HTML]

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

How to recruit and retain health workers in underserved areas: the Senegalese experience
- Pascal Zurn et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070730 Full article text [HTML]

Effective physician retention strategies in Norway’s northernmost county
- Karin Straume & Daniel MP Shaw doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072686 Full article text [HTML] |

PERSPECTIVES

How can medical schools contribute to the education, recruitment and retention of rural physicians in their region?
- James Rourke doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.073072 Full article text [HTML] |

Emerging opportunities for recruiting and retaining a rural health workforce through decentralized health financing systems
- Mahjabeen Haji et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072827 Full article text [HTML]

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Working in health: financing and managing the public sector health workforce
- Gilles Dussault doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.076190 Full article text [HTML]



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