The International Migration of Health Workers: Ethics, Rights and Justice

ISBN-13: 9781349309412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 223 str.

MS Rebecca S. Shah; R. Shah

Opis

Experts from ethicists and political philosophers to clinicians and trade unionists seek answers to a number of key ethical questions to further a deeper understanding of the ethics of health worker migration.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Foreword; T.Pogge Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: The International Migration of Health Workers: Ethics, Rights and Justice; R.S.Shah International Migration of Health Professionals: Towards a Multidimensional Framework for Analysis and Policy Response; G.Greco Care Worker Migration and Global Health Equity: Thinking Ecologically; L.A.Eckenwiler Does the Migration of Health Workers Bring Benefits to the Countries They Leave Behind?; C.Packer , V.Runnels & R.Labonté Conflicting Obligations in the International Migration of Health Workers; J.Snyder The Right to Health, State Responsibility and Global Justice; R.S.Shah Brain Drain, Health, and Global Justice; A.Sager The Right to Leave Versus a Duty to Remain: Health Care Workers and the 'Brain Drain'; P.Cole The Right to the Free Movement of Labour; A.H.Lesser Coercion in the Fight Against Medical Brain Drain; N.Eyal & S.A.Hurst Maternal Survival and the Crisis in Human Resources for Health in Africa: Impact of the Brain Drain; S.Bergström Should I Stay or Should I Go? Brain Drain and Moral Duties; A.Raustøl Nurse Migration From South Africa and the Ethics Discourse; C.Mcneil-Walsh Global Health, Justice and the Brain Drain: A Trade Union Perspective; N.Sigler Index

O autorze

STAFFAN BERGSTRÖM has been professor and chair of International Health at the Division of Global Health (IHCAR) at the Karolinska institutet in Stockholm, Sweden since 1996 PHILLIP COLE is Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Wales, Newport, UK LISA A ECKENWILER is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University, USA NIR EYAL is Assistant Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine (Medical Ethics) at the Harvard Medical School and at Harvard University's Program in Ethics and Health, USA GIULIA GRECO is a PhD candidate in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK SAMIA A HURST is Assistant professor of Bioethics at Geneva University's medical school in Switzerland, RONALD LABONTÉ is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada HARRY LESSER is a retired Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester University, UK COLLEEN MCNEIL-WALSH is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Northampton and PhD student at the University of Birmingham, UK CORINNE PACKER is Senior Researcher at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Population Health, Canada ANNE RAUSTØL is a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK, and an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, Diakonhjemmet University College, Norway VIVIEN RUNNELS is a PhD student in Population Health, and a research associate of the Globalization and Health Equity Research Unit, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ALEX SAGER is Assistant Professor of philosophy and university studies at Portland State University, Canada NICK SIGLER is currently Head of International Relations for UNISON, Britain's largest public service trade union. JEREMY SNYDER is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada