1st Edition
The Global Health Care Chain From the Pacific to the World
By John Connell
Copyright 2009
214 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers, either as sources, destinations or sometimes both. The book takes the understanding of health... Read more
1. The Globalisation of Skilled Migration: A Pacific Perspective 2. The Pacific Islands and Health Care 3. The Rise of Pacific Migration 4. Becoming a Health Worker 5. Leaving Home? Movers and Stayers 6. The Impact of Health Worker Migration 7. A Policy Perspective 8. At the End of the Chain
Biography
John Connell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney. He has worked extensively in the South Pacific, and on the migration of health workers, and written various books about both, most recently The International Migration of Health Workers (Routledge, 2008).
"finely researched and informative" —Penelope Schoeffel, Independent University,Bangladesh
