... only Immigrants Developing countries Racial discrimination Health services Diversity management International medical graduates Figure 1 Model of medical migration from developing countries to the US: antecedents, consequences and institutional responses Although there has...

... Black people Discrimination Health services Racial discrimination In 2020, in the wake of the high-profile murders of African Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brook at the hands of police, the world erupted in protests led by Black Lives Matter (BLM) that called for more...

... perspective, research has for centuries viewed elite white men as representing the “normal” human being, ignoring how social divisions such as class, race, and gender affect people’s experiences of health and disease (Whittle and Inhorn, 2001). Equal opportunities Health services Higher education...

...Nick Johns; Alison Green; Martin Powell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the business case for ethnic diversity in the British National Health Service (NHS). It seeks to contextualise issues around diversity within the current political environment, and identify the barriers...

... Health services Turkey Though it has been one of the issues discussed for years, discrimination has been intensely taking place in the social agenda in recent years specifically with the effect of postmodern (Nicholson, 1990 ; Calas and Smircich, 1997) and critical perspectives (Grey and Willmott...

... and diversity of gender issues in the organisational context and in the structuration of professional legitimacy. Teresa Carvalho can be contacted at: teresa.carvalho@ua.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 The concept of NPM and its application to current health service reforms...

... to evaluate whether providing stable housing and intensive case management services to chronically medically ill homeless individuals will improve their health and their utilization of non‐emergency health services (AFC, 2006). Its primary goal has been to better serve the needs of homeless individuals...

..., thus drawing attention to the differences within the group of women (Benoit, 1999 ; Bourgeault et al., 2004 ; Wrede et al., 2006). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Professional services Public policy Gender Diversification Health services Professional...

... which professional expertise can be democratically represented in politics. Originality/value The interdisciplinary framework uses political theory on social justice to examine how health care politics frame professionalism. Governance Health services Gender Professional services Social...

...Ellen Kuhlmann; Ivy Lynn Bourgeault; Joana Sousa Ribeiro Purpose This article aims to explore the gendered dimensions of the heterogeneous path of non‐native graduates in nursing and medicine in the Portuguese National Health Service, including institutional factors like the process of credential...

... directions for research are proposed. Originality/value Since women overwhelmingly dominate employment in the health care field, to explicate their unique perspectives of leadership and career advancement. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Leadership Careers Women Health services...