Resource Spotlight: Migration of Health Workers: The WHO Code of Practice and the Global Economic Crisis


 
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Migration has sometimes been oversimplified as a linear “brain drain” from “poor” to “rich” countries, but the issue is more complex," writes the authors of Migration of Health Workers: The WHO Code of Practice and the Global Economic Crisis.

The reports brings "much needed evidence and clarity to the changing patterns of migration over time, and the varied and changing reasons why health workers choose to migrate – or to stay in their own countries."

The authors specifically investigate how the global financial crisis impacts migration and looks at how countries are dealing with these issues.

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