NEW TRENDS OF HEALTH WORKER MIGRATION. CASE OF ROMANIA
The chronic shortage of workers in the health care field in countries all over the world has severe consequences for their population and implications spilling over far beyond their borders. At global level, according to the report Migration of Health Workers from 2014, there were about 60 million...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academica Brâncuşi
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie |
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| Online Access: | http://www.utgjiu.ro/revista/ec/pdf/2019-03/01_Balan.pdf |
| Summary: | The chronic shortage of workers in the health care field in countries all over the world has severe consequences
for their population and implications spilling over far beyond their borders.
At global level, according to the report Migration of Health Workers from 2014, there were about 60 million
workers in the health care field, but distributed unevenly among countries and regions. The total number of health
workers is still unable to satisfy the demands of many populations regarding access to the required health care
services. Thus, both developed countries and developing countries struggle to meet the huge challenges triggered by
the imbalance between the increasing demand of medical services and the supply of medical personnel within the
health care systems.
The migration abroad of the medical personnel from Romania has complex motivations and displays an
increasing trend for the last decade, and this deepens the structural crisis within the public health care system. “Brain
exodus” of Romanian professionals trained in the health care field might cause severe economic damage, especially
when the education system is incapable of replacing those who left abroad.
The paper intends a brief analysis of the dimensions and structure of the migration flows of medical personnel
from Romania, in an European context. |
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| ISSN: | 1844-7007 1844-7007 |