Human Capital Flight ( Hcf )

The second aspect of the HIE is that the sick and the poor tend not to attempt immigration, a process of self-exclusion that, by default, selects for the healthiest and wealthiest. Both health and wealth contribute significantly to the ability to move to another country: individuals of the greatest wealth and health have the greatest ability to migrate (Kennedy et al., 2006). The amount of money required to facilitate a move from Asia can be quite substantial. For example, shipping charges and plane tickets can cost thousands of dollars, a sum that a poorer individual would simply be unable

Building off the increased ability of recruiting health professional comes even more heightened salary comparison. In a study conducted with many countries,

There has been a decreasing number of international medical graduates (IMGs) in the U.S. since 1980.

The challenges associated with the HRM i.e. human resource management includes the distribution and composition of health care work force. In addition to this, the issues related to the training of the work force are also a challenge for the human resource management. The relocation of the health workers is also a great concern. Moreover, the degree of economic development is also a great challenge that negatively impacts the level of performance shown by a health care organization. These challenges must be addressed properly in order to have an effective health care delivery anywhere in the world.

The brain drain is not confined to physicians. Doctors represent only one quarter of health workers who made the move to the states in 1996, with nurses making up the majority

Globalization is changing the healthcare sector rapidly and radically through the circulation of medical goods and services. Therefore, the core of globalization is on basis of multilateral agreements between nations. However the very nature of globalization and the agreements between the developed country and developing and underdeveloped country means that the process benefits the former while the latter often loses or gets a meager trickle down from the benefits. For example in the case study it is established that due to the shortage of radiologists in America, radiologists are often expensive and take home a large paycheck of approximately $400,000. Outsourcing to Indian radiologists would not only reduce the workload of the American radiologists but also cut costs. Cost cutting would be achieved through cheaper professional fees for the Indian radiologist who gets approximately a tenth of what their American counterpart receives. This means that globalization in this sense benefits the American population and professionals, while the Indians lose.

Regardless of the many factors influencing the supply of physicians such as movement away from managed care, increase in the number of female physicians, lifestyle preferences, population growth, and increase in average lifespan, there still continues to be a physician shortage here in the United States. In order to fill these available positions in doctors’ offices, hospitals, and clinics due to the physician shortage, we are using IMGs, or international medical graduates.

This paper seeks to explain how the health sector has and shall be affected by the implementation of the Affordable Health care Act. This act represents the largest legal overhaul in the health sector for since about two decades ago. It is relevant for this paper since the Act affects the human capital in the health sector employment space. The act affects this human capital in terms of healthcare employees as well as the patients. This paper shall briefly highlight these effects and possible strategies implemented and recommended as well.

This is a subject of particular personal interest because it strikes me as perhaps the single most problematic reality in healthcare today and because the need for jobs on a global scale should denote an opportunity to preempt the worsening of this crisis. Any research emergent on the subject such as the present literature review should be used to proliferate knowledge of the present crisis and to push for

The poor areas have many less doctors than the wealthy spots, even though the rural areas suffer from much harsher diseases on a larger scale. The countries either provide medical training for their own citizens or fund their training from somewhere else, but once the students have the skills to save lives, they move to different places for higher pay. This issue lies not only in South Africa, but in the entire continent. For example, for every Liberian doctor working in Liberia, there are two working abroad. Not only is there a shortage of doctors in general (averaging about 1.15 doctors for every 1,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa) but a shortage of nurses and midwives. Over two-thirds of mothers in Africa have no health professionals to guide them through hardships regarding pregnancy and childbirth, causing Africa alone to be responsible for over one half of the world’s infant and maternal

Brain drain involves the migration of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians to the United States, which then causes a drain of the crucial workers in their home countries. During the mid-twentieth century, a majority of immigrants came mainly from German and Great Britain. The brain drain is viewed by conflict theorists as a result of unequal distribution of world resources.

A lot of people are bewildered why more foreign doctors are not invited to work in American workplaces. There is a severe discrimination and prejudice amongst anyone who is not an innate U.S. citizen. One of the main reasons why Americans are trying to push foreigners away is for the safety of their nation. Some Americans think that all foreigners are terrorists and are set out to destroy Americans but this is not true at all. In fact, statistics show that foreigners actually bring good to the nation. Brian Palmer, author of Slate magazine says, “During the 1990s, a series of studies showed that graduates of foreign medical colleges performed slightly worse on exams than their U.S.-trained colleagues, and program heads gave marginally better reviews to domestic physicians. By the turn of the century, however, that gap had disappeared. International graduates now score higher than U.S.-educated doctors on many exams” (Palmer). This was shocking to know that even though foreign doctors are doing better than domestic doctors, they are still mistreated.

“ETHIOPIA IS BLEEDING.” Well-educated, trained, and experienced sons and daughters of the motherland are flooding from the ups, downs, hills, and mountains to the rest of the world. There is no much more affected nation by the brain drain than Ethiopia in the continent – Africa. In Ethiopia the brain drain issue is becoming controversial. It can be mouth fully said that regarding this human capital flight, no national consensus is reached at all. The government and the intellectual public look at the case from different points of view. Of course, both the good and the bad perspectives have merits, and demerits. On the one hand, the nation can neither control the outflow of skill nor ignore its consequences on the larger community, because of

As many countries currently experience a shortage of qualified health workers , the loss of any health worker-especially doctors and nurses-has serious ramifications for the health of people in that country. Often it's these health workers who work longer hours, whose workplaces have fewer resources than urban health centers, and where they can feel most isolated. Insuring health workers feel safe at their job is also important to motivation, productivity and their decision to remain at work. Health worker retention is critical for health system performance and a key problem is how best to motivate and retain health workers. There are a growing number of studies which explore the links between incentives, motivation and retention of health

The number of physicians in the country has been decreasing at such a great rate that the government and other stakeholders in the health care sector are trying to camouflage this by increasing the number of foreign doctors practicing in the country. The American Medical Association has been trying to promote these re-entry programs designed for physicians since the year 2009 to help curb this problem. There are many people who can see what the problem is, but it is not possible for them to do much about it. Physicians also see this problem, and they are well aware of why the shortage is arising, but they are also unable to do much to prevent the issue. There are many problems that lead to the shortage of physicians, and unless something is done, it will continue escalating ADDIN EN.CITE Lynch19721573(Lynch, 1972)1573157317Lynch, MichaelThe Physician "Shortage": The Economists' MirrorAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science82-88399ArticleType: research-article / Issue Title: The Nation's Health: Some Issues / Full publication date: Jan., 1972 / Copyright © 1972 American Academy of Political and Social Science1972Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science00027162http://www.jstor.org/stable/1040122( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_6" o "Lynch, 1972 #1573" Lynch, 1972).