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Session: Is it a Human Right for Health Workers to Migrate from Poor Countries?
3128.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Oral
Is it a Human Right for Health Workers to Migrate from Poor Countries?
Health workers in developing countries are critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals--especially improving maternal and child health and combating HIV and malaria. Nonetheless, many health workers trained in low-income countries are eager to leave their countries of origin to seek "greener pastures" in wealthy countries. We will explain the human right to migrate while articulating the effects of health worker migration on sending-country health systems and population health status. We report the strategies that work to retain health workers in resource-poor settings (based on our own recent research in Uganda). We also discuss the means by which low-income countries can create data systems that help answer policy questions about health worker recruitment, management and retention. To provide a larger context, we construct an argument that critiques foreign aid and its contribution to the health workforce crisis in low-income countries. We will explain how all countries are interconnected on this issue and why we all share in the benefits of solving the problem.
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the human right to migrate and its origins 2. Be able to articulate the effects of health worker migration on sending-country health systems and population health status 3. Articulate strategies that work to retain health workers in resource-poor settings and the ways likely to effectively deter health worker migration from poor countries 4. Identify the means by which low-income countries can create data systems that help answer policy questions about health worker recruitment, management and retention. 5. Construct an argument that critiques foreign aid and its contribution to the health workforce crisis in low-income countries. 6. 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
10:30 AMHow Foreign Aid can Undermine Public Sector Health Worker Recruitment and Retention in Low-Income Countries  [ Recorded presentation ]
Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD, Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH
10:50 AMUsing data to develop effective human resources policies for health worker recruitment and retention  [ Recorded presentation ]
Pamela A. McQuide, PhD, RN, Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD, Paul Kiwanuka-Mukiibi, Dr
11:10 AMStrategies to retain health professionals in low-income countries  [ Recorded presentation ]
Fatu Yumkella, Anneke Zuyderduin, PhD, Pamela A. McQuide, PhD, RN, Amy Hagopian, MHA, PhD, Emily Bancroft, MPH(c)
11:30 AMHuman right to migrate in the context of a public health crisis  [ Recorded presentation ]
Eric Friedman, JD, Leonard Rubenstein, JD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:International Health
Endorsed by:Occupational Health and Safety; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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