Brain drain: Do economic conditions "push" doctors out of developing countries?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 169-178

  Okeke, Edward N ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration; Physicians; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DRAIN; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HEALTH WORKER; LABOR MIGRATION; PANEL DATA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAPITAL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN INCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

MIGRATION; PHYSICIANS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL; GREAT BRITAIN; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PHYSICIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890159530     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.09.010     Document Type: Article

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