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

Irene A. Glinos ()
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Irene A. Glinos: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

A chapter in Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility, 2014, pp 67-80 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health professionals; Mobility; Migration; Health workforce; Service delivery; Access to care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H51 I11 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-5480-6_4

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