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Addressing the Brain Drain of African Medical Professionals to Western Countries

Sylla, Keba
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1304510596

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Urban Studies and Public Affairs.
African medical professionals' migration constitutes one of the greatest economic, social and political issues that affect the African continent today. This issue of African medical professionals' migration always creates debate among political leaders, migration specialists, and other specialists regarding economic development in Africa. This study addresses the brain drain of African medical professionals' migration to Western countries. To understand and to address this issue, the push/pull factors, including economic, political, social and administrative from both the sending African and the receiving Western migrant countries are examnied. Through a secondary data analysis, we are able to analyze data regarding the number of medical professionals who are leaving Africa and the number of those who are staying in the continent. The number of medical schools that train medical professionals is also examined. With a population of more than 900 million people, Africa has only 159 medical schools that are not able to train maximum number of people to face Africa's health needs. Though the numbers of medical professionals who migrate vary from one African country to another, a general desire to get jobs, access to education, housing and opportunity of promotion are among the common motivations for these medical professionals to migrate. African countries' migration policies or the absence of any policy and the Western receiving countries' migration policies have also demonstrated the importance of the mass exodus from Africa. These two policies create more motivations to migrate from Africa, Though this analysis encounters many obstacles including a great paucity of data from Africa and low publications regarding data including the number of medical students in each African medical school. Lastly, topics for future research are suggested as well as the collection of reliable data from Africa on this issue. The brain drain of African medical professionals continues to impact African health and its development. There are both economic and health considerations which can still operate against Africa's interest for any further economic, social and political development in the near future. Despite the monetary benefit from migration, Africa is still facing many hurdles regarding its healthcare system and its delivery.
Raymond III Cox, Dr. (Advisor)
Margaret Stephens, Dr. (Committee Member)
Nancy Grant, Dr. (Committee Member)
Mittie Jones, Dr. (Committee Member)
Kathryn Feltey, Dr. (Committee Member)
249 p.
Public Administration
This paper is about Immigration of African medical professionals who leave Africa in search of better living conditions in western countries. This phenomenon is called the Brain drain. Every country in the world faces this type of migration.

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  • Sylla, K. (2011). Addressing the Brain Drain of African Medical Professionals to Western Countries [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1304510596

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sylla, Keba. Addressing the Brain Drain of African Medical Professionals to Western Countries. 2011. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1304510596.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sylla, Keba. "Addressing the Brain Drain of African Medical Professionals to Western Countries." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1304510596

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