... Africa, increasing
mobility and migration of health workers and the absence
of strategies to train and retain adequate supplies of
appropriate health workers, contributes to the resource
drain. The ... increase retention of
health workers in public service.
In Malawi the majority of health workers are mid-level
providers, or cadres of health workers...
... recent
health sector reforms had on the local health workforce?
• What is the status of existing efforts to train health work-
ers using innovative methods, including distance learning
and various ... various forms of information technology? How will
training by protocol differ from, and complement, tradi-
tional community health worker training?
• How can the health profess...
... qualifying in 1995, 6.7% in 1996,
8% in 1997, 8.9% in 1998, 10.3% in 1999 and 12.5% in
2000. There was a levelling out in 2001 (12.3%) and 2002
(11.2%), but thereafter a drop, with 7.7% qualifying in
2003, ... (foundation trainees, Senior House Officers or
House Officers), 17.8% in middle-grade training posts
(Specialist Registrar, Locum Appointment for Training)
and 1...
... step in achieving the policy goal of escalating
the numbers of trained health professionals in the popu-
lation [2].
Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing inter-
ests.
Additional ... staffing configurations
Using each of the methods offered by the Input Control
portion of the model, we offer three scenarios and sets of
results by way of exam...
... [15], Ireland [9] and Northern Ireland [16]. Expan-
sion was indicated by an increase in the number of
pharmacy schools or increases in enrolments at existing
schools or increased numbers of entrants ... feminization, increased clinical governance
measures through continually reviewing and improving
the quality of patient care, increased numbers of prescrip-
tions and increa...
... behalf of more than 2146 Indian and Filipino nurses
in Ireland, up from 518 in 2007 (Irish Nursing Board,
unpublished data). These statistics would indicate that an
increasing number of migrant ... was forwarded to each of the 1536 poten-
tial respondents in advance of the survey, introducing the
research and informing them of the imminent arrival of
the questionnaire. I...
... data
analysis and drafting of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved
the final manuscript.
Competing interests
We declare that none of the investigators has any conflict of interest. None
of ... Four-
fifths (81%; 52) of the respondents stated they had no
other source of income. All of those with another source
of income (19%, 12) were inv olved mainly in pet...
... 37°C and 20 µM indomethacin was added to the culture
medium immediately (t = 0 h post binding) or at the indicated
times. Cells were maintained in culture medium containing
indomethacin until ... with MHV strain A59 (MHV-A59) at a
multiplicity of infection (m.o.i.) of 0.01 in the presence or
absence of the COX-1 and COX-2 inhibitors indometh-
acin and curcumine. The cells w...
... purposes)
utes then rinsed in water and stained with crystal violet for
20 min and rinsed again. Plaques were counted manually
and concentrations of plaque forming units per ml (pfu/
ml) of the sample ... the
antiviral effect of Salubrinal on Dengue. Salubrinal was
recently discovered as a small molecule inhibitor of the
protein complex (containing the protein phosphatase 1
a...
... property
of protein coding DNA and that different levels of symme-
try are associated with different functional aspects of gene
and protein. The interaction between DNA and protein
structure and function ... expected
number of occurrences.
P(t) predicted number of occurrences of mIMRs in the
sequence
P(o) probability of the occurrence of a mirror repeat in a
random...