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Health professionals' migration in emerging market economies: patterns, causes and possible solutions

Author(s) -

Manisha Nair,

Premila Webster

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fds087

Subject(s) - workforce , business , government (linguistics) , economic shortage , health care , private sector , human migration , emerging markets , economic growth , demographic economics , development economics , population , economics , medicine , finance , environmental health , linguistics , philosophy

About a third of the countries affected by shortage of human resources for health are the emerging market economies (EMEs). The greatest shortage in absolute terms was found to be in India and Indonesia leading to health system crisis. This review identifies the patterns of migration of health workers, causes and possible solutions in these EMEs.

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