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Geographic imbalance

• Healthcare Inequity and Physician Scarcity - Empowering Non-Physician Healthcare
  Article published in Economic & Political Weekly
  30 March 2013
• Pakistan: WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel - Implementation Strategy Report, 2011
  Alliance document
  1 September 2012
• Stemming the Brain Drain - A WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel
  Article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, 2011
  21 December 2011
• Human resources for mental health care: current situation and strategies for action
  This is the fifth in a Series of six papers about global mental health
  1 December 2011
• A rapid assessment of utilization, effectiveness a added value of the knowledge centres at Bishoftu and Durame hospitals in Ethiopia
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, case study
  1 December 2011
• Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
  Joint Statement by the Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO, IFRC, UNICEF, UNHCR
  1 June 2011
• Presenting the upcoming State of the World’s Midwifery report
  Fact sheets
  10 January 2011
• Mid-level health providers a promising resource to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, Report
  30 December 2010
• Chances for Change
  Wemos Foundation, Report
  30 December 2010
• THE MOROCCO COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Positive Practice Environments
  Morocco Case Study: Health Care Environments in Morocco
  16 December 2010
• The Uganda Country Case Study: Positive Practice in Uganda: Enhancing health worker and health system performance
  The Uganda Country Case Study
  27 October 2010
• The Zambia Country Case Study: Positive Practice Environments: Quality Workplaces for Quality Care
  The Zambia Country Case Study
  27 October 2010
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  Global policy recommendations
  5 July 2010
• The Chattisgarh Experience with a Three-Year Course for Rural Health Care Practitioners
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Compulsory service programmes for recruiting health workers in remote and rural areas: do they work?
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2010
• Health workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2010
• Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Factors affecting recruitment and retention of community health workers in a newborn care intervention in Bangladesh
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Inequalities in the Technical Brazilian Health Workforce
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Measuring health workforce inequalities in the Ethiopian context: methods and applications
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• WHO/ISI special topic meeting “Measuring health workforce inequalities: methods and applications”
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Understanding health workforce wastage in Mexico
  Presentation
  1 January 2009
• Monitoring the geographical distribution of the health workforce in rural and underserved areas
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2009
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  World Health Organization, background paper
  1 January 2009
• Working in health. Financing and managing the public sector health workforce
  The World Bank, book
  1 January 2009
• Provision of abortion by mid-level providers: international policy, practice and perspectives
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2009
• The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2009
• Healthcare workers and the brain drain
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practicing in rural and other underserved areas.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• A critical review of interventions to redress the inequitable distribution of healthcare professionals to rural and remote areas
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• From staff-mix to skill-mix and beyond: towards a systemic approach to health workforce management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Global efforts for strengthening the information and evidence base on human resources for health
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2008
• Appropriate training and retention of community doctors in rural areas: a case study from Mali
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Bangladesh trains health workers to reduce maternal mortality
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Ethiopia's human resources for health programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Ghana: implementing a national human resources for health plan
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Pakistan's Lady Health Worker Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Guidelines: incentives for health professionals
  Guidelines
  1 January 2008
• Evaluation a mi-parcours du projet santé sud Madagascar
  Institut National de Santé Publique et Communautaire, Madagascar, Report
  1 January 2008
• Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Forecasting the global shortage of physicians: an economic- and needs-based approach
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2008
• Postoperative outcome of caesarean sections and other major emergency obstetric surgery by clinical officers and medical officers in Malawi
  Study
  1 January 2007
• Second meeting of the Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council
  Webcast
  1 January 2007
• Major surgery delegation to mid-level health practitioners in Mozambique: health professionals' perceptions
  Study
  1 January 2007
• Annual review of HRH situation in Asia-Pacific region 2006-2007
  Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health, Health Human Resources Development Center, Ministry of Health, P.R. China, report
  1 January 2006
• Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa. A desk review
  Article
  1 January 2004
• Technical consultation on Imbalances in the health workforce
  World Health Organization, report
  1 January 2002
• Imbalances in the health workforce. A briefing paper
  World Health Organization, technical brief
  1 January 2002
• What Do Doctors Want? Developing Incentives for Doctors to Serve in Indonesia's Rural and Remote Areas
  Members document
  1 January 1998