Trends of cross-border mobility of physicians and nurses between Portugal and Spain

Authors: Conceição C, Dussault G, Leone C
Journal: Human Resources for Health
Link: http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/36

Health workforce cross-border mobility has an impact not only on individual health workers, but also on how health services are organized, planned, and delivered. This paper presents the results of a study of current mobility trends of health professionals along the borders between Portugal and Spain. The objective was to describe the profile of mobile physicians and nurses; to elicit the opinions of employers on mobility factors; to describe incentive policies to retain or attract health professionals; and to collect and analyse employers’ opinions on the impact of this mobility on their health services.
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Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil

Authors: Buchan J, Dussault G, Fronteira I
Journal: Human Resources for Health
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Continuity+and+change+in+human+resources+policies+for+health%3A+lessons+from+Brazil

BACKGROUND:
This paper reports on progress in implementing human resources for health (HRH) policies in Brazil, in the context of the implementation and expansion of the Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saúde – SUS).
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Human resources for health and universal health coverage: Fostering equity and effective coverage

Authors: Buchan J, Campbell J, Cometto G, David B, Dussault G, Fogstad H, Fronteira I, Lozano R, Nyonator F, Pablos-Méndez A, Quain EE, Starrsj A, Tangcharoensathien V
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Link: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/11/13-118729/en/

This paper explores the HRH policy lessons from four countries – Brazil, Ghana, Mexico and Thailand – purposefully selected for having achieved sustained improvements in accelerating progress towards UHC since 1990.Part of their success lies in the policy focus on the health workforce to expand population coverage and the health benefits package.
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Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM and PEPFAR-funded HIV-activities

Authors: Biesma R, Brugha R, Cailhol J, Chilundo B, Craveiro I, Dussault G, Lehmann U, Madede T, Makoa E, Mathole T, Parsons AN, Sanders D, van Damme W, van Leemput L
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: Globalization and Health
Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/52

A multi-country study was conducted from 2007 to 2011 in 5 countries (Angola, Burundi, Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa), to assess the impact of GHIs on the health system, using a mixed methods design. This paper focuses on the impact of GFATM and PEPFAR on HRH policies.
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Scaling-up the medical work- force in Timor-Leste: Challenges of a great leap forward

Authors: Buchan J, Cabral J, Dussault G, Ferrinho P
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: Social Science & Medicine
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23932856

The health services system of Timor-Leste (T-L) will, by 2015, add 800 physicians, most of them trained in Cuba, to the 233 employed by the national health system in 2010-2011. The need for more physicians is not in discussion: poor health indicators, low coverage and utilization of services, and poor quality of services are well documented in T-L.
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Trends of cross-border mobility of physicians and nurses between Portugal and Spain

Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil

Human resources for health and universal health coverage: Fostering equity and effective coverage

Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM and PEPFAR-funded HIV-activities

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