Restructuring brain drain: Strengthening governance and financing for health worker migration

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mackey, Tim K ^a,b   Liang, Bryan A ^a,c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain drain; Global health; Global health governance; Health policy; Health system strengthening; Health worker migration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DRAIN; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL HEALTH; GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING; HEALTH WORKER MIGRATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BRAIN DRAIN; GLOBAL HEALTH; GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING; HEALTH WORKER MIGRATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MOTIVATION; POLICY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880172638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.19923     Document Type: Article

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