Kurzbeschreibung
(Englisch)
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The proposed project tries to understand in a comparative perspective the governance of skilled health professionals migration to Europe. There has been an intensification of international migration of health personnel over the last decades. Most studies focused on migrant health professionals from developing countries, examined the role of private agencies in the international recruitment, the causes of migration and its impact on the health system of the sending countries in particular, but did not provide an in-depth understanding of the legislation, the governance, the dynamics of inflows and the perceptions, practices and logics of policymakers, migrants and other key players in the realm of the health professionals migration. To this must be added the lack of international comparative perspective between the main destination countries on issues related to policies and legislations, something that could permit addressing the negative effects of “brain drain” of health professionals whilst sharing international good practices for better health human resource planning policies and governance of health skilled migration. In addition, the increasing commitment of business agencies and civil society organizations in the health sector in the light of privatization of health care is one of the main challenges for policymakers in terms of ensuring public-private partnerships, an issue which needs further attention among scholars and researchers. More importantly, the coherence of migration policies, public health policies and human resource policies is necessary to ensure a better governance of international health care professionals migration for the benefit of sending, receiving countries, the migrants themselves and the national health system.
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Partner und Internationale Organisationen
(Englisch)
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AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GR, HU, IE, IL, IT, LT, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR, UK
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Abstract
(Englisch)
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The proposed project tries to understand in a comparative perspective the governance of skilled health professionals migration to Europe. There has been an intensification of international migration of health personnel over the last decades. Most studies focused on migrant health professionals from developing countries, examined the role of private agencies in the international recruitment, the causes of migration and its impact on the health system of the sending countries in particular, but did not provide an in-depth understanding of the legislation, the governance, the dynamics of inflows and the perceptions, practices and logics of policymakers, migrants and other key players in the realm of the health professionals migration. To this must be added the lack of international comparative perspective between the main destination countries on issues related to policies and legislations, something that could permit addressing the negative effects of 'brain drain' of health professionals whilst sharing international good practices for better health human resource planning policies and governance of health skilled migration. In addition, the increasing commitment of business agencies and civil society organizations in the health sector in the light of privatization of health care is one of the main challenges for policymakers in terms of ensuring public-private partnerships, an issue which needs further attention among scholars and researchers. More importantly, the coherence of migration policies, public health policies and human resource policies is necessary to ensure a better governance of international health care professionals migration for the benefit of sending, receiving countries, the migrants themselves and the national health system.
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