Chapter
Medical Migration From Zimbabwe: Towards New Solutions?
Abstract
Health worker migration presents a daunting challenge to health systems in many sub-Saharan African countries (Anyangwe and Mtonga 2007; Conway et al. 2007; Crush and Pendleton 2011). In fact, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified the migration of health workers as probably the most critical problem facing health systems in Africa today (Hussey 2007). Global health indicators show that Africa bears one quarter of the burden of …
Authors
Chikanda A; Dodson B
Book title
Geographies of Health and Development
Pagination
pp. 281-295
Publication Date
January 1, 2016
DOI
10.4324/9781315584379-21