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IEHP Report: Brain gain, drain and waste Print E-mail

The Experiences of Internationally Educated Health Professionals in Canada

globeandpencil2We employed a largely qualitative approach to this study, as it was deemed most appropriate for the experiential and comparative research questions under investigation. A qualitative design allows for a greater appreciation of embedded and multifaceted nature of the phenomena under investigation and the contextual influences on these phenomena. In addition to the comparative dimension of professions, we also chose to examine the experiences across four key provinces.

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Immigrant Care Workers Report Print E-mail

doctorsmallThe Role of Immigrant Care Workers in an Aging Society: The Canadian Context & Experience

The aim of this research was to address some of the important gaps in our knowledge about the role of immigrant care workers in the care of older adults in the home and long term care sectors in Canada, with the broader intention of providing comparative data to the situations in the U.K., Ireland and the U.S.

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Conference Report Print E-mail

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The CIHR/Health Canada Chair in Health Human Resources Policy and the Community Health Research Unit at the University of Ottawa hosted on Friday May 29th 2009:

The Migration Of Health Professionals & Its Impact on Health Human Resource Planning
A Comparison of Source Country and Destination Country Perspectives

The purpose of this conference was to bring together health policy researchers and decision-makers who have an interest in the migration of health professionals from either a destination country (e.g., Canada, U.S., & U.K.) or a source country (e.g., South Africa, the Philippines, India, the Caribbean & Poland) perspective to develop an explicitly comparative and context sensitive program of research.

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