Healthcare workers 'on the move': making visible the employment-related geographic mobility of healthcare workers.
Many healthcare workers are 'on the move' as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients'/clients' homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers' experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility...
| Publicado en: | Health Sociology Review Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 277 - 291 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2019
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