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The Possible Effects of Health Professional Mobility on Access to Care for Patients

In: Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility

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  • Irene A. Glinos

    (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)

Abstract

The chapter explains how health professional mobility impacts on the resources and capacity available within a health system, and how this affects service delivery and access. The contrasting experiences of destination countries, which receive foreign inflows of health professionals, and of source countries, which loose workforce due to outflows, are illustrated with country examples. The evidence opens the debate on how EU countries compete for health workforce, what this means for resource-strained, crisis-hit Member States, and whether there is any room for intra-European solidarity. The nexus between patient mobility and health professional mobility is moreover highlighted. This take on free mobility in the EU has received little attention, and while evidence is scarce, it calls for careful analysis when considering the possible effects of free movement on access to care in national health systems. The chapter reformulates the question on ‘who wins’ and ‘who looses’ from freedom of movement in the EU to turn our attention away from those who go abroad for care and instead focus on those who stay at home.

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  • Irene A. Glinos, 2014. "The Possible Effects of Health Professional Mobility on Access to Care for Patients," Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, in: Rosella Levaggi & Marcello Montefiori (ed.), Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility, edition 127, pages 67-80, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:dehchp:978-88-470-5480-6_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-5480-6_4
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    Keywords

    Health professionals; Mobility; Migration; Health workforce; Service delivery; Access to care;
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health

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