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This issue:
Addresses the special theme of retaining health workers in remote and rural areasVolume 88, Number 5, May 2010, 321-400
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)
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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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072892/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072728/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072918/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-070920/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-071605/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072769/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-070607/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-070730/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072686/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-073072/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072827/en/index.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]<http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/10-076190/en/index.html>
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Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
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