Useful Links
Health Workforce and Migration
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Links
- AAMC Workforce Studies
- AcademyHealth, International Exchange
- American Medical Association U.S. Physician Workforce Planning
- Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany
- Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Global Commission on International Migration
- Global Health Workforce Alliance
- Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions
- Health Workforce Australia
- Health Workforce Information Center
- Human Resources for Health
- Human Resources for Health Global Resource Center
- International Centre for Human Resources in Nursing (ICHRN)
- The International Centre for Migration and Health
- International Centre on Nurse Migration
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- ILO - Office for International Labour Migration
- International Organization for Migration
- International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
- The Midwest Center for Health Workforce Studies
- Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- PAHO Human Resources Management
- UK Department for International Development Health Resource Centre
- Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Center for Health Workforce Studies
- World Health Organization - Health Workforce
- World Health Organization - Human Resources for Health
- World Health Organization - Migration of Health Workers
- World Health Organization - The global shortage of health workers and its impact
- The World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health
Selected Publications
Physician Migration: A Challenge for America, a Challenge for the World
Richard A. Cooper
The State of Health Workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence of Crisis and Analysis of Contributing Factors
African Region Human Development Working Paper, World Bank, Bernhard Liese and Gilles Dussault
Impact, regulation and health policy implications of physician migration in OECD countries
Mélanie Bourassa Forcier, Steven Simoens and Antonio Giuffrida
Physician Migration: Donor Country Impact
A.P.R. Aluwihare
The Migration of Physicians from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: Measures of the African Brain Drain
Amy Hagopian, Matthew J. Thompson, Meredith Fordyce, Karin E. Johnson and L. Gary Hart
Physician Migration, Education, and Health Care
John J. Norcini and Paul E. Mazmanian
Medical migration and the physician workforce. International medical graduates and American medicine
F. Mullan, R. M. Politzer and C. H. Davis
Developing evidence-based ethical policies on the migration of health workers: conceptual and practical challenges
Barbara Stilwell, Khassoum Diallo, Pascal Zurn, Mario R Dal Poz, Orvill Adams and James Buchan
Globalization, Skilled Migration and Poverty Alleviation: Brain Drains in Context, DRC working paper T15 (PDF)
Ron Skeldon
Human Resources for Health and Development: A Joint Learning Initiative (PDF)
Skilled Migration: Healthcare Policy Options, DRC briefing no.6 (PDF)