Weblinks to act as supplements in your studies and provide a greater breadth of information.

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Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey news story.

Royal College of Nursing international work web page.

Researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Nottingham collaborated with rescue agencies to provide ‘real time’ information at the time of the Nepal earthquake in 2015.

Data from the World Health Organization.

Global Nursing Leadership Toolkit.

Countries within the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) present detailed comparisons.

The International Council of Nurses.

European Union databases and information.

OECD databases and information.

OECD (2013) Health at a Glance 2013: OECD Indicators. OECD Publishing.

World Bank databases and information.

World Health Organization databases and information.

Information on female genital mutilation.

ICN Burdett Global Nursing Leadership Institute

BBC News Channel ‘The numbers of people migrating, where they are going and some of the implications of migration’ (accessed 30 November 2015).

Helbe, M. (2010) ‘The movement of patients across borders: challenges and opportunities for public health’, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89: 68–72. DOI: 10.2471/BLT.10.076612.

World Health Organization (2014) World Health Statistics 2014.  Geneva:WHO.