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Kathryn Senior

• Wanted: 2.4 million nurses, and thats just in India

  In every country, rich or poor, the story is the same. There are not enough nurses. The developed world fills its vacancies by enticing nurses from other countries, while developing countries are unable to compete with better pay, better professional development and the lure of excitement offered elsewhere.

  • 01/05/2010

  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • • Health
    • Migration
    • Health Care
    • Rural Health
    • Health Personnel
    • WHO
    • South Africa
    • Maldives
    • India
    • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Developing Countries
    • Kathryn Senior

• In the market for proper sanitation

  Poor sanitation helps spread disease, yet efforts to provide subsidized toilets have been resisted for cultural reasons in many developing countries. To improve the rate of uptake, some people are now advocating a market-based approach.

  • 01/03/2010

  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • • Health Effects
    • Toilets
    • Health
    • Sanitation
    • Subsidies
    • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Cambodia
    • Developing Countries

• Climate change and infectious disease: a dangerous liaison?

  The potential impact of climate change was highlighted at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (Dec 3

  • 01/02/2009

  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • • Health Effects
    • El Nino
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • Natural Disasters
    • Floods
    • Dengue
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Developing Countries
    • South Asia