Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
New England Journal of Medicine
Volume:
353
Copyright:
2005
Description:
There has been substantial immigration of physicians to developed countries, much of it coming from lower-income countries. Although the recipient nations and the immigrating physicians benefit from this migration, less developed countries lose important health capabilities as a result of the loss of physicians. With the use of World Health Organization data, this article presents an emigration factor for the countries of origin of the immigrant physicians to provide a relative measure of the number of physicians lost by emigration. [from abstract]
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