Background The WHO estimates a global shortage of 2.8 million physicians, with severe
deficiencies especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). The unequitable …

Shortages of health-care staff are endemic in sub-Saharan Africa (table). 1 Overall, there is
one physician for every 8000 people in the region. In the worst affected countries, such as …

Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political
issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing …

Education and skill are increasingly used by states around the world as a central organizing
principle in the regulation of migration flows. Immigration theorists have often claimed that …

Background Developed countries' gains in health human resources (HHR) from developing
countries with significantly lower ratios of health workers have raised questions about the …

Abstract Knowledge translation represents an opportunity to redress global health
inequalities. This paper first assesses models for how health inequalities are produced and …

Many organisations in rich countries actively recruit health workers from poor countries.
Critics object to this recruitment on the grounds that it has harmful consequences and that it …

Many nations in the developing world invest scarce funding into training health workers.
When these workers migrate to richer countries, particularly when this migration occurs …

Recent decades have seen an increase in cross-border fl ows of health professionals. Of
greatest health equity concern are fl ows from poorer countries which have existing and …

Although many people agree that there is something morally troubling in the phenomenon of
brain drain, it is also often claimed that the substantial benefits it can bring to source …