Migration Potential of Hungarian Healthcare Professionals – Dynamics of Attraction and Repulsion

The reason why the migration of healthcare professionals has not been described and analyzed yet in Hungary can obviously be found in the authenticity and the lack of this of the Hungarian society. There are several theoretical approaches to the migration processes. Each and every one of them analyzes and defines migration from a different point of view. Our goal was to find out the nature of the migration willingness and activity of Hungarian healthcare specialists. We intended to concentrate primarily on the sociological, cultural-anthropological and social-psychological aspects of this complex phenomenon. This sub-cultural phenomenon can be derived form numerous factors: (a) the family background of Hungarian healthcare specialists, (b) their typical, modal system of values when choosing a profession, (c) the fact that they are typically women, (d) the lack of former experience and knowledge of inspirations in mobility. At the Semmelweis University Faculty of Health Sciences we have already carried out...