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dc.contributor.authorMarcus, Karchan
dc.contributor.authorQuimson, Gabriella
dc.contributor.authorD. Short, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:21:34Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn14784491
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1478-4491-12-62
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/66475
dc.description.abstractBackground The Philippines continues to overproduce nurses for export. Little first-hand evidence exists from leading organisations in the Philippines concerning their experiences and perceptions in relation to Filipino nurse migration. What are their views about health workforce migration? This paper addresses this research gap by providing a source country perspective on Filipino nurse migration to Australia. Methods Focus-group interviews were conducted with key informants from nine Filipino organisations in the Philippines by an Australian-Filipino research team. The organisations were purposively selected and contacted in person, by phone, and/or email. Qualitative thematic analysis was performed using a coding framework. Results Health workforce migration is perceived to have both positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, emigration offers a welcome opportunity for individual Filipino nurses to migrate abroad in order to achieve economic, professional, lifestyle, and social benefits. On the other, as senior and experienced nurses are attracted overseas, this results in the maldistribution of health workers particularly affecting rural health outcomes for people in developing countries. Problems such as 'volunteerism' also emerged in our study. Conclusions In the context of the WHO (2010) Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel it is to be hoped that, in the future, government recruiters, managers, and nursing leaders can utilise these insights in designing recruitment, orientation, and support programmes for migrant nurses that are more sensitive to the experience of the Philippines' education and health sectors and their needs.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom62-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto62-10
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHuman Resources for Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume12
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth Policy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160299
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160508
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1110
dc.titleSource country perceptions, experiences, and recommendations regarding health workforce migration: a case study from the Philippines
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
gro.description.notepublicPage numbers are not for citation purposes. Instead, this article has the unique article number of 62.
gro.rights.copyright© 2014 Marcus et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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