doi:10.2471/BLT.08.058578 The numbers of migrating health workers have increased significantly over the past few decades and patterns of global migration have become more complex as increasing demand for health workers in the world’s wealthiest countries has resulted in large numbers of health workers migrating from lower-income countries to work in higher-income countries.1 Health worker migra...

Health worker migration theories have tended to focus on labour market conditions as principal push or pull factors. The role of education systems in producing internationally oriented health workers has been less explored. In place of the traditional conceptual approaches to understanding health worker, especially nurse, migration, I advocate global political economy (GPE) as a perspective tha...

The already inadequate health systems of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, have been badly damaged by the migration of their health professionals. There are 57 countries with a critical shortage of healthcare workers, a deficit of 2.4 million doctors and nurses. Africa has 2.3 healthcare workers per 1000 population, compared with the Americas, which have 24.8 healthcare workers per 1000 po...

6.3 The need for a paradigm shift in research and analysis of the medical brain drain 36 6.4 Migrants' remittances and health outcomes in remittance-receiving households 37 6. The view put forward by a number of influential sources is that sub-Sahara Africa is experiencing a health crisis in human resources and that this crisis is defeating efforts at international, regional and country levels ...

Most research on the phenomenon of "brain drain" (one-way flow of highly skilled/educated individuals) has focused on movement between the least developed and most highly developed countries. Therefore, the significance of patterns of migration to middle-income countries such as those in Latin America is less clear. The aim of this study was to outline key features of international health worke...

BACKGROUND This study used the global WageIndicator web survey to answer the following research questions: (RQ1) What are the migration patterns of health workers? (RQ2) What are the personal and occupational drivers of migration? (RQ3) Are foreign-born migrant health workers discriminated against in their destination countries? METHODS Of the unweighted data collected in 2006-2014 from healt...

The paper explores migrant workers careers in the health sector, comparing the Spanish case and the British case. International migration has become an important feature of globalized labour markets in health care. Recently, concerns over the need of ensuring staff and skill shortages in the health system are becoming a common issue in many European countries. Following this, the paper is focus...

Background-Maharashtra being one of the developed states in India , is a hub for in-migration. Seasonal migration of agricultural workers during sugar cane harvesting season has been an established phenomena. Thousands of workers with their families come to Maharashtra for the period of approximately six months, starting from November each year. This migratory population faces various adversiti...

exposure to blood borne pathogens is considered as a common occupational hazard among health care workers all around the world. the aim of the current study was to investigate the factors associated with needle stick and sharp injuries among health care workers of an academic hospital. the current cross-sectional study of health care workers a teaching hospital designed based on a census sampli...

Background Migration of African-trained health workers to countries with higher health care worker densities adds to the severe shortage of health personnel in many African countries. Policy initiatives to reduce migration levels are informed by many studies exploring the reasons for the original decision to migrate. In contrast, there is little evidence to inform policies designed to facilitat...