New data on African health professionals abroad
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- 10 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Resources for Health
- Vol. 6 (1) , 1
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-6-1
Abstract
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.Keywords
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