Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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Articles in August, 2004 issue of Bulletin of the World Health Organization

• Cambodia leads the way in the protection of children against worms
• Should I stay or should I go? The answer for most health-care workers in developing countries is easy: go. Higher pay and better working conditions are luring more and more health personnel abroad leaving their native health systems stripped of staff
  by Fiona Fleck
• Migration of physicians and nurses: a world wide picture.
  by Alfonso Mejia
• Managing the return and retention of national intellectual capacity
  by Delanyo Dovlo
• Plumbing the brain drain.
  by Nancy Gore Saravia
• The two faces of enhancing utilization of health-care services: determinants of patient initiation and retention in rural Burkina Faso.
  by Frederick Mugisha
• Brain drain: rethinking allocation
  by Jane Lethbridge
• The challenges of capacity building in science in a global labour market
  by Tim Martineau
• Selective mass treatment with ivermectin to control intestinal helminthiases and parasitic skin diseases in a severely affected population
  by Jorg Heukelbach
• Data on the migration of health-care workers: sources, uses, and challenges.
  by Khassoum Diallo
• Migration patterns of physicians and nurses: still the same story?
  by Stephen Bach
• WHO tobacco convention set to become law by year's end
• Strategies to discourage brain drain
  by Linda Kupfer
• The migration of nurses: trends and policies
  by James Buchan
• Migration of health-care workers from developing countries: strategic approaches to its management.
  by Barbara Stilwell
• Strategies to manage migration of health professionals to protect national health systems will be successful only if all stakeholders are involved in the process
  by Karoline Schmid
• Smoking shortens life by a decade, concludes 50-year study
  by Sharon Kingman
• WHO announces "River of Life" winners
• Effectiveness of strategies for discouraging brain drain
  by Anna Whelan
• Hand-washing could save the lives of millions of children
  by Fiona Fleck
• Public-private mix for DOTS implementation: what makes it work?
  by Knut Lonnroth