Monitoring the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.
Objective: To present the findings of the first round of monitoring of the global implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel ('the Code'), a voluntary code adopted in 2010 by all 193 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO). Met...
| Published in: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 91; no. 11; pp. 816 - 824 |
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World Health Organization
Nov2013
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