Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime?

Modeling the effects of physician emigration on human development

“…6 The study by Chauvet et al (2008) (Bhargava, 2005;Mills et al, 2008). It should be noted that there were certain drawbacks in using country of training rather than country of birth.…”

Understanding job satisfaction amongst mid-level cadres in Malawi: the contribution of organisational justice

“…8 In Ghana, 55% of pharmacists are in the Greater Accra region, which has 16% of the population and 2% in the Northern region, with 10% of the population. 7 With 31 countries failing to meet the "Health for All" standard of one doctor per 5,000 people, 9 alternative models of service delivery need to be explored, along with greater efforts to understand and reverse health worker outflows from areas where they are desperately needed.…”

African Brain Drain and Its Impact on Source Countries: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

“…For example, the UNCTAD has estimated that each African professional migrant represents, on average, a loss of 184,000 US dollars to Africa, see, among others, Oyowe (1996) Mills et al (2008). From the point of view of the receiving countries, Saraladevi et al (2009) note that in the United Kingdom, "each qualifying doctor costs £200,000-£250,000 and 5-6 years to train, so in economic terms, every doctor arriving in the United Kingdom is appropriating human capital at zero cost for the use of the UK health services and the effect is immediate rather than in 5 years' time" (p. 62).…”