Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 88, Number 5, May 2010, 321-400

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

This issue addresses the special theme of retaining health workers in remote and rural areas

Chile; Combined incentives work; Cuba; Calling all doctors; Ghana; Incentives for medical students; Kenya, South Africa & Thailand; Attracting nurses to rural areas; Norway; Dealing with doctor shortages; Ethiopia and Rwanda ; Who wants a rural health post? ; Nigeria; Pilot insurance plan; Rising to the challenge; Senegal; Solving regional differences; Global; Where have all the nurses gone?; Decentralized health financing; Does compulsory service work?; Getting staff to stay in rural areas; The role of medical schools ; Where do we stand on the Millennium Development Goals?

EDITORIALS

One piece of the puzzle to solve the human resources for health crisis
- Manuel M Dayrit et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078485

Striking the right balance: health workforce retention in remote and rural areas
- Lincoln C Chen
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078477

Five years to go and counting: progress towards the Millennium Development Goals
- Carla AbouZahr & Ties Boerma
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078451

NEWS

Cuba answers the call for doctors

Wanted: 2.4 million nurses, and that's just in India

Nigerian farmers rejoice in pilot insurance plan

Rising to the challenge of rural surgery

Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment
- Margaret E Kruk et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072892

Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda
- Pieter Serneels et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072728

Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas: a multicountry discrete choice experiment
- D Blaauw et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072918

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Increasing access to health workers in underserved areas: a conceptual framework for measuring results
- Luis Huicho et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070920

Compulsory service programmes for recruiting health workers in remote and rural areas: do they work?
- Seble Frehywot et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071605

The Chilean Rural Practitioner Programme: a multidimensional strategy to attract and retain doctors in rural areas
- Sebastian Peña et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072769

Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas
- Carmen Dolea et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070607

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

How to recruit and retain health workers in underserved areas: the Senegalese experience
- Pascal Zurn et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070730

Effective physician retention strategies in Norway’s northernmost county
- Karin Straume & Daniel MP Shaw
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072686

PERSPECTIVES

How can medical schools contribute to the education, recruitment and retention of rural physicians in their region?
- James Rourke
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.073072

Emerging opportunities for recruiting and retaining a rural health workforce through decentralized health financing systems
- Mahjabeen Haji et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072827

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Working in health: financing and managing the public sector health workforce
- Gilles Dussault
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.076190

CORRIGENDUM

Corrigendum
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.100510

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