Background There is an increasing trend of international migration of health professionals from low- and middle- income countries to high-income countries as well as across middle-income countries. The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was created to better address health workforce development and the ethical conduct of international recruitment. T...

strengthening the health workforce and universal health coverage (uhc) are among key targets in the heathrelated sustainable development goals (sdgs) to be committed by the united nations (un) member states in september 2015. the health workforce, the backbone of health systems, contributes to functioning delivery systems. equitable distribution of functioning services is indispensable to achie...

Recent data on emigrant schooling suggests that emigrants are almost universally more skilled than non-emigrants from the same country. For the case of poor source countries and rich destination countries, this runs counter to the negative selection predicted by the Borjas-Roy model of income maximization. We present a different income maximization model that admits positive selection while at ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the lost investment of domestically educated doctors migrating from sub-Saharan African countries to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. DESIGN Human capital cost analysis using publicly accessible data. SETTINGS Sub-Saharan African countries. PARTICIPANTS Nine sub-Saharan African countries with an HIV prevalence of 5% or greater or with mor...

Objective To estimate the lost investment of domestically educated doctors migrating from sub-Saharan African countries to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Design Human capital cost analysis using publicly accessible data. Settings Sub-Saharan African countries. ParticipantsNine sub-Saharan African countries with an HIV prevalence of 5% or greater or with more than ...

the relevance and effectiveness of the world health organization’s (who’s) global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel is being reviewed in 2015. the code, which is a set of ethical norms and principles adopted by the world health assembly (wha) in 2010, urges members states to train and retain the health personnel they need, thereby limiting demand for internat...

This paper examines the policy context of the rise in the international mobility and migration of nurses. It describes the profile of the migration of nurses and the policy context governing the international recruitment of nurses to five countries: Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also examine the policy challenges for workforce planning and the design ...