The international migration of health workers : ethics, rights and justice
The migration of health workers from poor to richer countries is associated with important freedoms of movement and opportunity. It may also weaken critically under-staffed health systems serving poor populations and threaten their health and development goals. The medical 'brain drain' is induced by and reinforces gross global inequality and leads us to question whether health systems, migration policies and social justice are, or should be, matters of only domestic concern. The negative impacts of international health worker migration have long been lamented, but ethical analysis of the phenomenon remains scarce and ethical responses are difficult to identify. The International Migration of Health Workers: Ethics, Rights and Justice brings together academic and practitioner experts from ethicists and political philosophers to clinicians and trade unionists. Together they seek answers to a number of key ethical questions including: How should we conceptualise the international migration of health workers? What are the genuine harms and benefits? Who is morally responsible? What do ethical policy-solutions look like? How can solutions balance apparent clashes between human rights? What does global justice require?
1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) : illustrations
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List of Tables and Figures
Foreword; T. Pogge
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The International Migration of Health Workers: Ethics, Rights and Justice; R.S. Shah
International Migration of Health Professionals: Towards a Multidimensional Framework for Analysis and Policy Response; G. Greco
Care Worker Migration and Global Health Equity: Thinking Ecologically; L.A. Eckenwiler
Does the Migration of Health Workers Bring Benefits to the Countries They Leave Behind?; C. Packer, V. Runnels & R. Labonť
Conflicting Obligations in the International Migration of Health Workers; J. Snyder
The Right to Health, State Responsibility and Global Justice; R.S. Shah
Brain Drain, Health, and Global Justice; A. Sager
The Right to Leave Versus a Duty to Remain: Health Care Workers and the 'Brain Drain'; P. Cole
The Right to the Free Movement of Labour; A.H. Lesser
Coercion in the Fight Against Medical Brain Drain; N. Eyal & S.A. Hurst
Maternal Survival and the Crisis in Human Resources for Health in Africa: Impact of the Brain Drain; S. Bergstr̲m
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Brain Drain and Moral Duties; A. Raust̜l
Nurse Migration From South Africa and the Ethics Discourse; C. Mcneil-Walsh
Global Health, Justice and the Brain Drain: A Trade Union Perspective; N. Sigler
Index. International migration of health professionals : towards a multidimensional framework for analysis and policy response / Giulia Greco
Care worker migration and global health equity : thinking ecologically / Lisa A. Eckenwiler
Does the migration of health workers bring benefits to the countries they leave behind? / Corinne Packer, Vivien Runnels and Ronald Labonté
Conflicting obligations in the international migration of health workers / Jeremy Snyder
The right to health, state responsibility and global justice / Rebecca S. Shah
Brain drain, health and global justice / Alex Sager
The right to leave versus a duty to remain : health-care workers and the 'brain drain' / Phillip Cole
The right to the free movement of labour / Anthony H. Lesser
Coercion in the fight against medical brain drain / Nir Eyal and Samia A. Hurst
Maternal survival and the crisis in human resources for health in Africa : impact of the brain drain / Staffan Bergström
Should I stay or should I go? Brain drain and moral duties / Anne Raustøl
Nurse migration from South Africa and the ethics discourse / Colleen McNeil-Walsh
Global health, justice and the brain drain : a trade union perspective / Nick Sigler