GLOBALISATION AS A “BRAIN DRAIN” CHALLENGES VS OPPORTUNITY

Brain drain and brain gain: the challenges of internationalisation Brain Drain: Fact or Fiction?

Health Workforce Imbalances in times of Globalisation: Brain Drain or Professional Mobility?

2 SUMMARY The health workforce is of strategic importance to the performance of national health systems as well as of international disease control initiatives. The brain drain from rural to urban areas, and from developing to industrialised countries is a long-standing phenomenon in the health professions but has in recent years taken extreme proportions, particularly in Africa. Adopting the w...

Brain drain

Professor Emeritus, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, [email protected] In this issue, three papers discuss the issue of the brain drain: of psychiatrists from Egypt and Nigeria, and of nurses from East Africa. They explore the complexities of professional migration and its impact on the health of populations in source and recipient countries; they a...

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

Brain drain Problem : A Review

Brain drain or human capital flight is a large emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. A brain drain is usually regarded as an economic cost, since emigrants usually take with them the fraction of value of their training sponsored by the government. It is a parallel of capital flight whi...