New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad
Language:
English
Publisher:
Center for Global Development
Copyright:
2007
Pages:
23
Description:
The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to developed countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the causes and effects of the phenomenon has been hampered by a lack of systematic data on the extent of African health workers’ international movements. We use destination-country census data to estimate the number of African-born doctors and professional nurses working abroad in a developed country circa 2000, and compare this to the stocks of these workers in each country of origin. [from abstract]
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