Realizing rights: the WHO global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel analysis with nurses' perspectives.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged the scope of the issues that undermine the development of sustainable health workforces when it promulgated the WHO Global Code (Code) of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel in 2010. The Code supplies a template for policy solutions to the global health worker crisis. Its recommendations are based upon four principles: 1.) to recognize the right of all people to the highest attainable standard of health; 2.) to acknowledge the right of skilled health workers to legally migrate in search of life opportunity; 3.) to employ a global policy approach to address the root causes and effects of health personnel disparity, and; 4.) to give special consideration to the needs of developing health systems. These four references embody an international consensus framework for health workforce policy that links health personnel to realization of the right to health, and well resourced to developing health systems.