Many countries are involved in the “production” and overseas recruitment of care workers in a major international response to the “care crisis” affecting advanced industrialized economies. But the distribution of gains and losses from care-labour migration is becoming increasingly unequal, and the pressure to develop alternative policies is intensifying. The author assesses the relevance of dif...

efforts. But the extent of the human resource crisis in Africa in general and particularly in the countries with a high HIV/AIDS prevalence, forces us to act decisively. We believe that we need to reconsider approaches that used to be politically incorrect. If not, the current staff deficits will continue to undermine the absorption capacity of all the new international initiatives. PRSPs shoul...

THE UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania health system was in London recently, recruiting nurses. Its advertisement stated that its recruiters were experienced in hiring nurses from the UK, Ireland and the Philippines, and an 'on the spot job offer is a possibility'. This one advert neatly captures the dynamics of the new international nursing labour market. The advert was placed by an international recr...

For international organizations, recruiting the right people is of paramount importance. Coping in the complex international environment requires organizations to employ the people with the competences they need. HR and recruitment departments, therefore, develop profiles containing these desired competences. Such profiles usually contain a listing of skills and character traits. Interestingly,...

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of this decision and how it relates to wage setting and the provision of general training. The theoretical framework is a promotion tournament involving M competing firms with heterogeneous productivities, two-level job hierarchies, and a fixed number of managerial positions. This paper also considers an alternative model based on variati...

The terms of Power, influence and authority could be heard in political world vastly, but using these terms is not leaving only to this realm. Despite its visual simplicity, generally there is not similar and equal perception about term of Power among people. Understanding about by politicians differs from lawyer perception about this term.  What people takes about Power, totally differ from wh...

BACKGROUND Self-administered surveys are an essential methodological tool for health services and knowledge translation research, and engaging end-users of the research is critical. However, few documented accounts of the efforts invested in recruitment of multiple different stakeholders to one health services research study exist. Here, we highlight the challenges of recruiting key stakeholder...

BACKGROUND Social media is increasingly being used as a means of recruiting participants, particularly for investigators whose areas of interest involve rare conditions or hard-to-reach populations. However, much of the literature to date has focused on paid advertisement recruitment. OBJECTIVE We used Lynch syndrome (LS), a rare hereditary cancer syndrome, as a model to demonstrate the succe...

The acute respiratory distress syndrome is the clinical presentation of acute lung injury characterized by diffuse alveolar damage and development of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema due to increased pulmonary alveolar-capillary membrane permeability. Alveolar recruitment maneuvers and prone position can be used in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome. The objective of this revie...