[afro-nets] For Discussion and Comments - Skilled Migration: Healthcare Policy Options

["Sanjoy K. Nayak" <sanjoy_k_nayak@yahoo.co.uk>]

For Discussion and Comments - Skilled Migration: Healthcare Policy Options
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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

Sent by: Sanjoy.

(Signed as: Pr. Sanjoy K. Nayak)
Director, Centre for Development Studies (1999-2005)
Hon Research Fellow, IASS, University of Birmingham, UK

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