Synopses & Reviews
Providing a comprehensive picture of diversity, ethnicity, and migration in the health sector this book analyses thekeythemes of career and career structures, social processes, segregation, racism and sexism at international, national and local levels.
About the Author
GERALDINE HEALY is Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has published widely on the interconnections of inequalities, employment relations, gender and ethnicity and is co-editor of The Future of Worker Representation and of Equality, Inequalities and Diversity: contemporary challenges and strategies and joint author of Ethnicity and Gender at Work.
FRANKLIN OIKELOME is Assistant Professor at the College of Graduate and Professional Studies at Eastern University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of several book chapters and articles including the award-wining A Global Link between National Diversity Policies? The Case of the Migration of Nigerian Physicians to the UK and USA published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He previously worked at Hull University Business School, UK and is an Associate of the Queen Mary Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, UK.
Table of Contents
Working in the Health Services - Troubles, Issues, Migration and Ethnicity
The Health Service Labour Market - An International Perspective
Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Health in the UK and USA
Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Health in a Developing Country - The Case of Nigeria
International Medical Graduates - Working in a Two Tier System
Gendered Differences in Medical Careers of International Medical Graduates and UK and US Medical Graduates
Working in health care - the importance of social processes
International and Local Quality and Diversity Networks in Health
Diversity Policies Across National Boundaries: How Health Service Organisations in the Global North are Responding to Exclusion