PHA-Exchange> Care trade: The international brokering of health care professionals

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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 
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Care trade: The international brokering of health care professionals .. Page 223

Susan Maybud1 Health Services Specialist, Sectoral Activities Department, ILO.

Christiane Wiskow ,  Director and Research Consultant, Salumondi, Health Personnel and International Public Health, Geneva, Switzerland.

 

"..The appealing, modern websites of the private agencies specializing in the recruitment of health care professionals for Western markets invite the loggers-on to explore a myriad of opportunities. Go ahead, they entice, just click on this website and you are one step closer to a better life. They advertise hundreds of fabulous hospital and health care nursing jobs in exciting places, and claim that they can make all the difference to health care careers. And it is so easy. Potential candidates just have to register, and they will be helped all along the way. Examination requirements will be demystified, job interviews will be arranged, and visas and permits will be handled. So fierce is the competition to secure scarce health care professionals that private recruitment agencies stage promotional events and aggressive recruitment campaigns in supplying countries, tripping over each other to attract suitable candidates.

 

How did the shortages of health care professionals become so acute, and how did international migration come to be viewed as one of the solutions to the problem? What is the role played by private recruitment agencies in the flows of international migration?

How have they assumed their responsibilities towards individual migrant health care workers?...."

 

 

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