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

Author: Julia Witt

Published in: BMC Public Health | Special Issue 1/2009

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Abstract

This article provides a brief overview of the global health-worker shortage, which could undermine the Millennium Development Goal to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. The current situation suggests that long-term solutions to shortages can only be found by addressing the problem from a global perspective; that is, to eliminate shortages through substantial investments in training and retaining health workers in developed and developing countries, and not through policies that do not work towards solving this underlying problem, such as ones that restrict migration.
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Metadata
Title
Addressing the migration of health professionals: the role of working conditions and educational placements
Author
Julia Witt
Publication date
01-11-2009
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Public Health / Issue Special Issue 1/2009
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-S1-S7

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