Global Shortage of Health Workers, Brain Drain Stress Developing Countries

Outcome and impact of Master of Public Health programs across six countries: education for change

“…In contrast to the reported brain-drain of higher educated health professionals [32-34], only 5% (24) of the graduates left their home country and, of these, seven left to work in a high income country; the remaining 17 left their country to work in their region of origin. Only five respondents, who had substantial experience in LMIC, came from high income countries.…”

Willingness and professional motivations of medical students to work in rural areas: a study in Alexandria, Egypt

“…Similar results were reported in other studies. 13,14 Interestingly, this association remained statistically significant at the 95% CI in models with demographic and rural exposure confounders.…”

Strengthening health systems by health sector reforms

“…This ‘brain drain’ exacerbates the poor distribution of health and financial resources in already resource constrained and disease burdened health systems ( 48 ). The consequences of this migration have impacted poor countries in such a way that health systems have been weakened, there has been failure to provide much needed public health interventions and financial loses have been significant ( 48 , 49 ). There is an urgent need for countries to have a system that targets motivations for global health worker migration at both individual and system level ( 50 ).…”