Health Professional Mobility and Health Systems

Fülszöveg

Health professional mobility impacts on the performance of health systems and these
impacts are assuming greater significance given increasing mobility in Europe, a
process fuelled by the European Union enlargements in 2004 and 2007. This volume
presents research conducted within the framework of the European Commission's
Health PROMeTHEUS project. This research was undertaken in order to address gaps
in the knowledge of the numbers, trends and impacts and of the policy responses to
this dynamic situation.
The following questions were used to provide analytical guidance for the 17 country
case studies reported here: from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey
and the United Kingdom.
¦ What are the scale and characteristics of health professional mobility in the EU?
¦ What have been the effects of EU enlargement?
¦ What are the motivations of the mobile workforce?
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Fülszöveg

Health professional mobility impacts on the performance of health systems and these
impacts are assuming greater significance given increasing mobility in Europe, a
process fuelled by the European Union enlargements in 2004 and 2007. This volume
presents research conducted within the framework of the European Commission's
Health PROMeTHEUS project. This research was undertaken in order to address gaps
in the knowledge of the numbers, trends and impacts and of the policy responses to
this dynamic situation.
The following questions were used to provide analytical guidance for the 17 country
case studies reported here: from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey
and the United Kingdom.
¦ What are the scale and characteristics of health professional mobility in the EU?
¦ What have been the effects of EU enlargement?
¦ What are the motivations of the mobile workforce?
¦ What are the resulting impacts on health system performance?
¦ What is the policy relevance of those impacts?
¦ What are the policy options to address health professional mobility issues?
The editors
Matthias Wismar is Senior Health Policy Analyst at the European Observatory
on Health Systems and Policies.
Claudia B. Maier is a Technical Officer at the European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies.
Irene A.Glinos is a Researcher at the European Observatory on HealtivSystems
and Policies.
Gilles Dussault is a Professor at the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical,
Universidade Nova De Lisboa.
Josep Figueras is Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems
and Policies and Head of the WHO European Centre for Health Policy. Vissza