Session: Developing Country Health Worker Migration


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

4234.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Developing Country Health Worker Migration

Rich countries are the beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other licensed health professionals who migrate from the poor countries in which they were trained to locations they perceive as "greener pastures." One in four U.S. physicians, for example, was trained abroad, and two-thirds of them trained in low-income or lower-middle income countries. This panel assembles an international group of scholars who have examined the issues of health worker migration and its implications for both the sending countries and receiving countries.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the panel, the participante will be able to (1) explain the effects of health worker migration on sending-country health systems and population health status; (2) articulate strategies to deter health worker migration from poor countries (or to compensate sending countries; (3) Internalize why all countries are interconnected on this issue and why we all share in the benefits of solving the problem.

Organizer(s):

Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD

Moderator(s):

Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD

2:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

2:35 PM

Strategies and advocacy to prevent health professional brain drain from Africa