Session 5: Globalisation and health: HR migration (John Ashmore)
•	HR migration 
•	Human resources for health

Compulsory reading:
Narasimhan, V., Brown, H., Pablos-Mendez, et al. (2004) Responding to the global
human resources crisis. The Lancet, 363, 1469-72.

Mackintosh M (2007) International migration and extreme health inequality: robust arguments and institutions for international redistribution in health care. In: The Economics of Health Equity. Eds. D McIntyre and G Mooney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Robinson, R. (2007) The costs and benefits of health worker migration from East and Southern Africa (ESA): A literature review. Equinet discussion paper 49, EQUINET, HST, ECSA-HC, pp.1-34 and conclusion.
Available at: http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/DIS49HRrobinson.pdf

IOM (2007) Health worker migration in South and southern Africa, Pretoria, International Organization for Migration, pp.1-35 and conclusion.
Available at: http://iom.org.za/site/index.php?option=com_docman&task
=doc_download&gid=102&Itemid=50,

Extra reading
Clemens M and Pettersson G (2007) New data on African health professionals abroad. Center for Global Development, WP No 5 February 

Heller, P. & Mills, A. (2002) The brain drain: health workers here and there. 25 July, International Herald Tribune. Washington. 
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/opinion/25iht-edheller_ed3_.html?
pagewanted=all

Huddart, J. & Picazo, O. (2003) Health Sector Human Resource Crisis in Africa: An Issues Paper. Academy for Educational Development, United States Agency for International Development

WHO (2006) World Health Report 2006: Working together for health, Geneva, World Health Organisation.