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The WHO Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel aims to promote ethical norms and principles to guide the international recruitment of health workers. In this blog I explore why the implementation and regulation of the WHO Code of Practice has been ineffective so far. In 2010, the WHO introduced a set of ethical...
The German health care system is under strain due to a shortage of skilled workers. Estimates project a lack of 1.8 million health workers by 2035. Facilities for the elderly are especially facing difficulties to provide quality care due to human resource constraints. Advocacy groups describe this as a “self-made crisis” that has arisen du...
“Prevent, detect, contain and treat”: following the pillars of its pandemic preparedness and response framework, Germany’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been praised for its low fatality rate. However, the conventional prioritization of immediate biomedical needs as the primary guiding principle in outbreak management arguably ca...
