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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
There has been an alarming surge in the number of health workers leaving their own countries to benefit from better pay and working conditions...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 08/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Hand-washing could save the lives of millions of children
Parents and other household members who wash their own hands carefully and regularly with soap as well as the hands of infants who are too small to...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 08/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Mental health a major priority in reconstruction of Iraq's health system
When outgoing interim Iraqi Health Minister, Dr Khudair Abbas, embarked on the reconstruction of Iraq's collapsed health system last summer, he was...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 07/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
SARS outbreak over, but concerns for lab safety remain
The recent outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in China which infected nine people and killed one of them is now over said WHO on...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 06/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Cardiovascular disease--a global health time bomb
Cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes--usually associated with wealthy, developed countries--have become far more...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 06/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Monkey malaria could represent a new human strain
Monkey malaria may be more widespread among humans than previously thought and could represent a new strain of the disease more dangerous to...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 05/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Microbicides preventing HIV infection could be available by 2010
First generation topical microbicides aimed at preventing HIV infection in women could be available as early as 2010, researchers told participants...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 05/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Clinical trials without ethical review under the spotlight
A recent series of unethical, and in some cases illegal, clinical trials in India is fuelling concern over the incidence of clinical trials...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 04/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
MMR controversy raises questions about publication ethics
Ten members of a team of 13 doctors who published a controversial study in the UK-based medical journal, the Lancet (1998;351:637), suggesting a...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 04/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication -
Top broadcasters join forces with UN on HIV/AIDS prevention
Twenty of the world's most powerful broadcasters and media conglomerates joined forces with humanitarian agencies to fight HIV/AIDS in a new...
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 03/01/04 by Fiona Fleck · More from publication
