Brain drain and health professionals

The cost of health professionals' brain drain in Kenya

BACKGROUND Past attempts to estimate the cost of migration were limited to education costs only and did not include the lost returns from investment. The objectives of this study were: (i) to estimate the financial cost of emigration of Kenyan doctors to the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA); (ii) to estimate the financial cost of emigration of nurses to seven OECD coun...

Is there any solution to the "brain drain" of health professionals and knowledge from Africa?

African public health care systems suffer from significant "brain drain" of its health care professionals and knowledge as health workers migrate to wealthier countries such as Australia, Canada, USA, and the United Kingdom. Knowledge generated on the continent is not readily accessible to potential users on the continent. In this paper, the brain drain is defined as both a loss of health worke...

Factors affecting the internal brain drain of Saudi healthcare professionals.

OBJECTIVE To investigate factors affecting the internal brain drain of healthcare professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using an anonymous self-administered online questionnaire sent to all Saudi students enrolled in healthcare profession programs in North America. The data was collected between January and March 2008 at the University of ...

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking

Global health: will positive changes for Sierra Leone's health professionals mean the end of its Brain Drain?

In this new era of global health (see JPHP 29:4), we sense palpable enthusiasm in Sierra Leone. Americans come for undergraduate internships, medical student electives, and health professional opportunities; that is how we met. Over the past 3 years, we have found few people understand the health system dilemmas in the world’s poorest country. In America, records are on the internet and easily ...