Migration and retention

Key resources

• Accelerating Progress in saving the Lives of Women and Children
  Women and children’s health: stock taking report by the Global Campaign for the Health MDGs
  1 January 2013
• Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit: Designing Evidence-Based Incentives for Health Workers
  Health worker retention toolkit
  1 January 2013
• Managing health worker migration: a qualitative study of the Philippine response to nurse brain drain
  Human Resources for Health 2012, 10:47 (19 December 2012)
  19 December 2012
• Mobility of health professionals – case stories
  Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf) document
  1 November 2012
• 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
• Health Worker Shortages and Global Justice
  Milbank Memorial Fund Report
  1 December 2011
• Contribute to the public hearing on the draft guidelines for monitoring the implementation of the WHO Code
  20 March 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
• Doctors and Nurses
  BBC World News Documentary film
  19 August 2010
• Podcast on health workforce migration and the WHO Global Code of Practice
  World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Alliance, podcast
  19 August 2010
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  Global policy recommendations
  5 July 2010
• International Centre on Nurse Migration
  Web site
  29 June 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
• 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
• Honouring the human rights to health and freedom of movement
  Technical brief
  1 January 2009
• Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council meeting June 2009
  Webcast
  1 January 2009
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  World Health Organization, background paper
  1 January 2009
• Does a code make a difference – assessing the English code of practice on international recruitment.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Worker Retention in Human Resources for Health: Catalyzing and Tracking Change
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Healthcare workers and the brain drain
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Malawi's Emergency Human Resources Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
  Strategic document
  1 January 2008
• Case studies summary
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• The US physician workforce: where do we stand?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce: how can OECD countries respond?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, health policy
  1 January 2008
• International mobility of health professionals and health workforce management in Canada: myths and realities
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• Project OCDE sur la migration des professionels de santé: le cas de la France
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Mismatches in the formal sector, expansion of the informal sector: immigration of health professionals to Italy
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Health workforce and international migration: can New Zealand compete?
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Health Organization, case study
  1 January 2008
• Migration of health workers: the UK perspective to 2006
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• Nurse workforce challenges in the United States: implications for policy
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2008
• International recruitment of health personnel: draft global code of practice
  World Health Organization, report
  1 January 2008
• Health and migration
  Speech
  1 January 2007
• Governing global health
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Second meeting of the Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council
  Webcast
  1 January 2007
• New initiative seeks practical solutions to tackle health worker migration
  Press statement
  1 January 2007
• Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council meeting November 2007
  Webcast
  1 January 2007
• Immigrant health workers in OECD countries in the broader context of highly skilled migration
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, case study
  1 January 2007
• The metrics and correlates of physician migration from Africa
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Do visas kill? Health effects of African health professional emigration
  Members document
  1 January 2007
• Migration of health workers - Factsheet 301
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2006
• Migration of health workers
  Fact sheet
  1 January 2006
• The health workforce in Africa: challenges and prospects
  The Africa Working Group of the Joint Learning initiative on Human Resources for Health and Development, report
  1 January 2006
• WHA 58.17 International migration of health personnel: a challenge for health systems in developing countries
  World Health Organization, resolution
  1 January 2005
• The flight of physicians from West Africa: views of African physicians and implications for policy.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2005
• Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa. A desk review
  Article
  1 January 2004
• WHA 57.19 International migration of health personnel: a challenge for health systems in developing countries
  World Health Organization, resolution
  1 January 2004
• International nurse mobility. Trends and policy implications
  International Council of Nurses, World Health Organization, Royal College of Nursing, report
  1 January 2003