THE MIGRATION OF ROMANIAN HEALTH PERSONNEL AND THE ETHICS OF INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT

In the last decade the phenomenon of international migration of healthcare personnel had increased, emphasizing the global crisis of workforce. In this context, the international recruitment of health personnel became a common practice for many states. In order to set some principles of the ethics o...

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Main Author: IRINA CEHAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Romanian Academy 2013-05-01
Series:Revista Română de Sociologie
Online Access:http://revista.acadsudest.ro/pdf-uri/nr.3-4-2013/19-ICehan.pdf
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Summary:In the last decade the phenomenon of international migration of healthcare personnel had increased, emphasizing the global crisis of workforce. In this context, the international recruitment of health personnel became a common practice for many states. In order to set some principles of the ethics of recruitment, in 2010 the World Health Organization adopted The Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel. This was meant to be a reference tool for establishing and improving the necessary legal frame on the international recruitment of health personnel, but it did not define the ethics of recruitment. This study is a qualitative one, based on interviews in order to highlight the conceptual frame regarding the ethics of recruitment in the opinion of representatives of foreign recruitment agencies which participated at fair jobs in Romania and of Romanian doctors who practice abroad
ISSN:1224-9262