<div class="gmail_quote"><br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<h3><b><font color="maroon" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This issue:<br>Addresses the special theme of retaining health workers in remote and rural areas</span></font></b></h3>
<h1><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Volume 88, Number 5, May 2010, 321-400<br>Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)<br></span></font></b><font color="navy" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/5/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/5/en/index.html</span></font></a></span></font><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></font></h1>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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?<br>
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<h3><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">EDITORIALS</span></font></b></h3>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">One piece of the puzzle to solve the human resources for health crisis<br>- Manuel M Dayrit et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078485<br>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Striking the right balance: health workforce retention in remote and rural areas<br>- Lincoln C Chen doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078477<br>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Five years to go and counting: progress towards the Millennium Development Goals<br>- Carla AbouZahr & Ties Boerma doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078451<br>
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<h3><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">RESEARCH</span></font></b></h3>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment<br>- Margaret E Kruk et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072892 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072892/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda<br>
- Pieter Serneels et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072728 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072728/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas: a multicountry discrete choice experiment<br>- D Blaauw et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072918 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072918/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<h3><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">POLICY AND PRACTICE</span></font></b></h3>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Increasing access to health workers in underserved areas: a conceptual framework for measuring results<br>- Luis Huicho et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070920 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-070920/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Compulsory service programmes for recruiting health workers in remote and rural areas: do they work?<br>- Seble Frehywot et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071605 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-071605/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Chilean Rural Practitioner Programme: a multidimensional strategy to attract and retain doctors in rural areas<br>
- Sebastian Peña et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072769 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072769/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas<br>- Carmen Dolea et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070607 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-070607/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<h3><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">LESSONS FROM THE FIELD</span></font></b></h3>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">How to recruit and retain health workers in underserved areas: the Senegalese experience<br>- Pascal Zurn et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070730 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-070730/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Effective physician retention strategies in Norway’s northernmost county<br>- Karin Straume & Daniel MP Shaw doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072686 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072686/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> |</span></font></p>
<h3><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">PERSPECTIVES</span></font></b></h3>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">How can medical schools contribute to the education, recruitment and retention of rural physicians in their region?<br>
- James Rourke doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.073072 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-073072/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> |</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Emerging opportunities for recruiting and retaining a rural health workforce through decentralized health financing systems<br>
- Mahjabeen Haji et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072827 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/09-072827/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<h3><b><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA</span></font></b></h3>
<p><em><i><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Working in health: financing and managing the public sector health workforce</span></font></i></em><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><br>
- Gilles Dussault doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.076190 <a href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/88/5/10-076190/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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