5057.0 Health worker migration: Crossing borders in search of greener pastures

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 8:30 AM
Oral
Organizer:
Amy Hagopian, PhD
Moderator:
Amy Hagopian, PhD

8:30 AM
Measuring the Migration of Nurses from the Bahamas: Why so Low, Relative to other Caribbean Nations?
Amy E. Adelberger, MPH, Anne Sales and Amy Hagopian, PhD
     
8:50 AM
Curbing the demand for foreign health workers: A review of policies and policy proposals in industrialized countries aimed at reducing the depletion of health workers from developing countries
Meredith Fort, MPH, PhC, Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH and Emily deRiel, MPH
  
9:10 AM
How U.S. Policy Lures Physicians from Low-Income Countries to Practice in our own Underserved Communities
Amy Hagopian, PhD
     
9:30 AM
Intent to migrate among nursing students in Uganda: Measures of the brain drain in the next generation of health professionals
Lisa Thu Nguyen, Amy Hagopian, PhD, Steven Ropers, Esther Nderitu, Anneke Zuyderduin and Sam Luboga, MD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers, Occupational Health and Safety, Public Health Nursing, Trade & Health Forum

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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