Research Catalog

Title

The international migration of health workers : ethics, rights and justice / edited by Rebecca S. Shah.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shah, Rebecca.

Description

xvii, 223 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Brain drain
• Emigration and Immigration
• Emigration and immigration
• Foreign Medical Graduates
• Foreign Professional Personnel
• Health Workforce > trends
• Medical personnel, Foreign
• Medically Underserved Area
• Professional Autonomy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

International migration of health professionals : towards a multidimensional framework for analysis and policy response / Giulia Greco -- Care worker migration and global health equity : thinking ecologically / Lisa A. Eckenwiler -- Does the migration of health workers bring benefits to the countries they leave behind? / Corinne Packer, Vivien Runnels and Ronald Labonté -- Conflicting obligations in the international migration of health workers / Jeremy Snyder -- The right to health, state responsibility and global justice / Rebecca S. Shah -- Brain drain, health and global justice / Alex Sager --The right to leave versus a duty to remain : health-care workers and the 'brain drain' / Phillip Cole -- The right to the free movement of labour / Anthony H. Lesser -- Coercion in the fight against medical brain drain / Nir Eyal and Samia A. Hurst -- Maternal survival and the crisis in human resources for health in Africa : impact of the brain drain / Staffan Bergström -- Should I stay or should I go? Brain drain and moral duties / Anne Raustøl -- Nurse migration from South Africa and the ethics discourse / Colleen McNeil-Walsh -- Global health, justice and the brain drain : a trade union perspective / Nick Sigler.

ISBN

• 9780230224414 (hardback)
• 0230224415 (hardback)

LCCN

2010023942

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries