Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy.(Recent Books)(Book review)

Nurses on the move: Migration and the global health care economy. By Mireille KINGMA. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006. Bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-8014-7259-6.

On 25 May 2006, the World Health Organization announced the founding of a Global Health Workforce Alliance to address the worldwide shortage of doctors, nurses and other health workers. Fifty-seven countries--36 of them in sub-Saharan Africa--have severe shortages of health workers. More than 4 million additional doctors, nurses, midwives, managers and public health workers are urgently needed to f