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International Mobility of Health Professionals: Brain Drain or Brain Exchange?

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The consequences of health professional mobility have become a prominent public policy concern. This paper considers trends in mobility amongst doctors and nurses and the consequences for health systems. Policy responses are shifting from a reactive agenda that focuses on stemming migration towards a more active agenda of managed migration that benefits source and destination countries. Improved working conditions and effective human resource practice are required to encourage retention of health professionals in both source and destination countries.

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  • Stephen Bach, 2006. "International Mobility of Health Professionals: Brain Drain or Brain Exchange?," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-82, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:rp2006-82
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