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International migration of health professionals and the marketization and privatization of health education in India: From push–pull to global political economy

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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 that can highlight how educational investment and global migration tendencies are increasing interlinked. The Indian case illustrates the globally oriented nature of health care training, and informs a broader understanding of both the process of health worker migration, and how it reflects wider marketization tendencies evident in India's education and health systems. The Indian case also demonstrates how the global orientation of education systems in source regions is increasingly central to comprehending the place of health workers in the global and Asian rise in migration. The paper concludes that Indian corporate health care training systems are increasingly aligned with the production of professionals orientated to globally integrated health human resource labour markets, and our conceptual analysis of such processes must effectively reflect these tendencies.

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  • Walton-Roberts, Margaret, 2015. "International migration of health professionals and the marketization and privatization of health education in India: From push–pull to global political economy," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 374-382.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:124:y:2015:i:c:p:374-382
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.004
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