This issue addresses the special theme of retaining health workers in remote and rural areas
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?
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
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
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
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
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
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) is the principal advisory group to WHO
for vaccines and immunization. WHO is soliciting nominations for experts from the
African, Eastern Mediterranean, European and Western Pacific regions.
