PHA-Exchange> Skilled Migration: Healthcare Policy Options

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 from "Sanjoy K. Nayak" <sanjoy_k_nayak at yahoo.co.uk> -----

The Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty is 
funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and is 
managed by a core team at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Policy Briefing No. 6, March 2006
Skilled Migration: Healthcare Policy Options
Saskia Gent and Ronald Skeldon   
http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/briefing_papers/BP6.pdf

Summary of Key Issues:
The loss of skilled personnel to rich countries is a major concern for many 
developing countries today. However, large numbers of people from developing 
countries are also being trained overseas and, of those trained at home, many 
cannot be absorbed productively into their economies of origin. At the same 
time, the association between the presence or absence of health personnel and 
the health status of a population is seen as simplistic and a range of other 
factors are addressed. This Briefing examines the case for a two-tiered health 
training system, one for global markets and the other for local markets. It 
also examines options for ‘outsourcing’ healthcare to regional centres in 
poorer countries as a way to assist with retention and return.

This is a summarised version of:
Ron Skeldon, “Globalisation, Skilled Migration and Poverty Alleviation: Brain 
Drains in Context” (see especially the Section on Health for All: Single or 
Two-Tiered Systems; page 19 and onwards)
http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/working_papers/WP-T15.pdf



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