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Migration of Health Care Professionals from India: A Case Study of Nurses

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  • Ann Issac
  • Nirmalya Syam
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    The study attempts to examine why there is staff shortage of health care professionals especially the nurses in India and the impact of such migration on services like emergency preparedness, quality of care, patient safety and access to needed health care services especially for vulnerable populations.

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    Paper provided by eSocialSciences in its series Working Papers with number id:2403.

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    Date of creation: Feb 2010
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    Keywords: nurses; migration; professional migration; Mode 4 services; India; humanpower; manpower; Sociology; migration studies; health professionals; nursing education; medical education; health personnel; health manpower; health care; hospitals; nursing care;

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