2020
African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate (“We Are not Florence Nightingale”) or Stay in Africa (“There Is No Place Like Home”); Comment on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle”
Tankwanchi AS, Hagopian A, Vermund SH. African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate (“We Are not Florence Nightingale”) or Stay in Africa (“There Is No Place Like Home”); Comment on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle”. International Journal Of Health Policy And Management 2020, 0: 660-663. PMID: 33160297, PMCID: PMC9278531, DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.219.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Subjective Well-being and Family Functioning among Adolescents Left Behind by Migrating Parents in Jiangxi Province, China
Zhou J, Hu F, Wu J, Zou ZY, Wang YX, Peng HC, Vermund SH, Hu YF, Ma YH. Subjective Well-being and Family Functioning among Adolescents Left Behind by Migrating Parents in Jiangxi Province, China. Biomedical And Environmental Sciences 2018, 31: 382-388. PMID: 29866220, PMCID: PMC9316390, DOI: 10.3967/bes2018.049.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow academic performanceMental health challengesStructural equation modelMiddle school studentsAdolescent viewpointLife satisfactionAcademic performanceAdolescentsParental migrationSchool studentsParentsMigrant parentsEquation modelParticipantsSatisfactionBeingHealth challengesFamilyStudents
2017
Nonacademic Attributes Predict Medical and Nursing Student Intentions to Emigrate or to Work Rurally: An Eight-Country Survey in Asia and Africa.
Silvestri DM, Blevins M, Wallston KA, Afzal AR, Alam N, Andrews B, Derbew M, Kaur S, Mipando M, Mkony CA, Mwachaka PM, Ranjit N, Vermund SH. Nonacademic Attributes Predict Medical and Nursing Student Intentions to Emigrate or to Work Rurally: An Eight-Country Survey in Asia and Africa. American Journal Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene 2017, 96: 1512-1520. PMID: 28719284, PMCID: PMC5462594, DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0756.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
Monitoring Sub-Saharan African Physician Migration and Recruitment Post-Adoption of the WHO Code of Practice: Temporal and Geographic Patterns in the United States
Tankwanchi AB, Vermund SH, Perkins DD. Monitoring Sub-Saharan African Physician Migration and Recruitment Post-Adoption of the WHO Code of Practice: Temporal and Geographic Patterns in the United States. PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0124734. PMID: 25875010, PMCID: PMC4395332, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124734.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2014
Medical and nursing students' intentions to work abroad or in rural areas: a cross-sectional survey in Asia and Africa
Silvestri DM, Blevins M, Afzal AR, Andrews B, Derbew M, Kaur S, Mipando M, Mkony CA, Mwachaka PM, Ranjit N, Vermund S. Medical and nursing students' intentions to work abroad or in rural areas: a cross-sectional survey in Asia and Africa. Bulletin Of The World Health Organization 2014, 92: 750-759. PMID: 25378729, PMCID: PMC4208487, DOI: 10.2471/blt.14.136051.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2013
Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile
Tankwanchi AB, Özden Ç, Vermund SH. Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile. PLOS Medicine 2013, 10: e1001513. PMID: 24068894, PMCID: PMC3775724, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001513.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhysician MasterfileAmerican Medical Association Physician MasterfileAMA Physician MasterfileYears of practicePhysician emigrationPhysician dataPhysiciansActive physiciansLength of timeEditors' SummarySSA countriesMasterfilePhysician workforceSaharan AfricaWorkforce statisticsUnited StatesImplementation yearResidency dataYearsHigh-income nationsSub-Saharan AfricaUS entryGreat need