Although recent immigrants to Canada are healthier than Canadian born (ie, the Healthy
Immigrant Effect), they experience a deterioration in their health status which is partly due to …

Objective To estimate the lost investment of domestically educated doctors migrating from
sub-Saharan African countries to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United …

There is a widespread perception that the increasing proportion of female physicians in most
developed countries is contributing to a primary care service shortage because females …

Background Aboriginal peoples in Canada are comprised of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.
Health care services for First Nations who live on rural and remote reserves are mostly …

Reports of a primary care shortage are ubiquitous in Canada and the United States. We
used a population-based, retrospective cohort study to examine the extent to which the …

There has been an explosion of literature on the attitudes of a variety of health care
providers, particularly physicians, to the growing utilization of complementary and alternative …

The increasing complexity of the migration pathways of health and care workers is a critical
consideration in the reporting requirements of international agreements designed to address …

Decisions concerning how, when and where patients should die have traditionally been the
exclusive domain of health care professionals. More recently, patients and their families are …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the views and experiences of 20 physicians and 20 nurses
at a major Canadian teaching hospital regarding the use of advance directives in clinical …

A persistent challenge with health-worker migration is the inequities it creates. To minimize
these inequities, systems of global governance of health-worker migration have arisen which …