<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>An important part of migration represents the brain drain, especially the migration of physicians. Romania has a health system in continuous reform, facing for over 3 decades a shortage of employees. Moreover, employed specialists and young physicians migrated, the health care system registering a medium efficiency. The number of migrant physicians from Romania followed an ascending trend, and this had negative consequences on Romanian population health. The main objective of this paper is identifying the profile and the dynamics of the migrant physician from Romania. Other objective is highlighting the Romanian counties where most physicians migrated from and the preferred destination countries.</p></abstract>

An important part of migration represents the brain drain, especially the migration of physicians. Romania has a health system in continuous reform, facing for over 3 decades a shortage of employees. Moreover, employed specialists and young physicians migrated, the health care system registering a medium efficiency. The number of migrant physicians from Romania followed an ascending trend, and this had negative consequences on Romanian population health. The main objective of this paper is identifying the profile and the dynamics of the migrant physician from Romania. Other objective is highlighting the Romanian counties where most physicians migrated from and the preferred destination countries.

The Characteristics of Migrant Physicians from Romania

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Journal of Social and Economic Statistics

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An important part of migration represents the brain drain, especially the migration of physicians. Romania has a health system in continuous reform, facing for...

The Characteristics of Migrant Physicians from Romania

Publicado en línea: 12 ago 2020

Páginas: 84 - 104

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jses-2020-0007

Palabras clave
Migration, Brain drain, Physicians, Health

© 2020 Simona-Andreea Apostu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Characteristics of Migrant Physicians from Romania

Publicado en línea: 12 ago 2020

Páginas: 84 - 104

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jses-2020-0007

Palabras claveMigration, Brain drain, Physicians, Health

© 2020 Simona-Andreea Apostu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Migration, Brain drain, Physicians, Health