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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790124903321

Autore

Tulenko Kate

Titolo

Insourced [[electronic resource] ] : how importing jobs impacts the healthcare crisis here and abroad / / Kate Tulenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H., : Dartmouth College Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-49127-2

9786613586506

1-61168-268-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

610.73/7069091724

Soggetti

Medical personnel - Supply and demand - United States

Medically underserved areas - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Shortage in the land of abundance -- How the United States created its healthcare-workforce problem -- The path to America -- The damage done -- The fox and the hydra : failed attempts to address insourcing -- Successful efforts to curb insourcing -- The way forward.

Sommario/riassunto

Dramatically recounts the causes and cascading effects of American insourcing of foreign healthcare workers