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Migration of health professionals from India: tracking the flow

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India has a vast reservoir of highly skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled labor force and is one of the major source countries in the global labor market. The current paper is the first of its kind to focus primarily on migration of health professionals from India. In the absence of national-level data on migration, the paper uses data from different sources to outline the magnitude and direction of flow of health care providers from India. The paper also assesses the existing global and national policies on migration and discusses their relevance in the context of migration of health professionals from India.

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Acknowledgement

This paper is an outcome of the project or result of the project “Mobility of Health Professionals” (MoHProf), which received funding from the European Union, in the framework of the Research Programme “FP7”. The sole responsibility of the paper lies with the authors. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information.

The authors would like to acknowledge the significant contributions made by Ms. Disha Tewari Gupta in the collection and analysis of the data for this paper.

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  1. Public Health Foundation of India, ISID Campus−4, Institutional Area Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India

    Sanghita Bhattacharyya & Harish Nair

  2. Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, India

    Indrajit Hazarika

  3. Centre for Population Health Sciences, Global Health Academy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Harish Nair

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Bhattacharyya, S., Hazarika, I. & Nair, H. Migration of health professionals from India: tracking the flow. Asia Eur J 8, 475–483 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-011-0292-0

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