Factors affecting the global migration of health professionals

There is an international crisis in health care. The health systems of industrialized countries are under pressure, as the delivery of modern medicine requires an ever-increasing number of highly skilled professionals. Human resource planners have failed to strategically organize their future workforce, resulting in shortages of key health workers. In the world’s poorer countries, health systems are under much greater stress. Under-investment in health care and migration of health professionals to more affluent countries have depleted an already under resourced service. 1

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