Exploring the Impact of Medical Brain Drain on Child Health in 188 Countries over 2000–2015

Amm Quamruzzaman
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Amm Quamruzzaman: Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-2922, USA

Societies, 2020, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: Medical brain drain has been a policy concern in recent years when many countries are struggling with health workforce shortages. Some suggest that wealthy countries only exacerbate this problem by recruiting internationally trained health professionals. Little research has considered the impact of medical brain drain on child health in the sending society, and the few empirical analyses that exist find no conclusive evidence. To fill this gap, I test the underlying mechanisms through which medical brain drain may affect child health in scores of countries. I use a panel dataset covering 188 countries over the period 2000–2015. The findings from fixed-effects regression models suggest that medical brain drain negatively affects child health and that there is a curvilinear relationship between the two. The effects on child health are stronger in countries approximately in the middle of the medical brain drain scale, and weaker on both ends. The implications of the findings for policy and future research are highlighted.

Keywords: healthcare migration; health workforce shortages; medical brain drain; child health; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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