[EQ] International Mobility of Health Professionals

International Mobility of Health Professionals
Brain Drain or Brain Exchange?

Stephen Bach, Reader in Employment Relations and Management, Department of
Management, King's College, University of London, UK.

UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2006/82 - August 2006

Available online PDF file [29p.] at:
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2006/rp2006-82.pdf

'"....The consequences of health professional mobility have become a
prominent public policy concern. This paper considers trends in mobility
amongst doctors and nurses and the consequences for health systems. Policy
responses are shifting from a reactive agenda that focuses on stemming
migration towards a more active agenda of managed migration that benefits
source and destination countries. Improved working conditions and effective
human resource practice are required to encourage retention of health
professionals in both source and destination countries..."

This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project on the
International Mobility of Talent. UNU-WIDER especially thanks ECLAC (United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago,
Chile) UNU-WIDER also acknowledges with thanks the financial contributions
to its research programme by the governments of Denmark (Royal Ministry of
Foreign Affairs), Finland (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Norway (Royal
Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Sweden (Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency-Sida) and the United Kingdom (Department for
International Development).

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