tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Intent to migrate among nursing students in Uganda: Measures of the brain drain in the next generation of health professionals"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Intent to migrate among nursing students in Uganda: Measures of the brain drain in the next generation of health professionals | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Intent to migrate among nursing students in Uganda Measures of the brain drain in the next generation of health professionals Lisa Nguyen 1 Steven Ropers1 Esther Nderitu2 Anneke Zuyderduin Sam Luboga3 and Amy Hagopian4 Address 1School of Medicine University of Washington Seattle USA 2Department of Nursing Aga Khan University School of Nursing Kampala Uganda 3Department of Medicine Makerere University Kampala Uganda and 4Department of Health Services University of Washington School of Public Health Seattle USA Email Lisa Nguyen - ltn2@ Steven Ropers - sropers@ Esther Nderitu - Anneke Zuyderduin - Sam Luboga - sluboga@ Amy Hagopian - hagopian@ Corresponding author Published 12 February 2008 Received 30 August 2007 Accepted 12 February 2008 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 5 doi l478-4491-6-5 This article is available from http content 6 1 5 2008 Nguyen et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background There is significant concern about the worldwide migration of nursing professionals from low-income countries to rich ones as nurses are lured to fill the large number of vacancies in upper-income countries. This study explores the views of nursing students in Uganda to assess their views on practice options and their intentions to migrate. Methods Anonymous questionnaires were distributed to nursing students at the Makerere Nursing School and Aga Khan University Nursing School in Kampala Uganda during July 2006 using convenience sampling methods with 139 participants. Two focus groups were also .