- Title
- Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime?
- Creator
- Mills, E J
- Creator
- Schabas, W A
- Creator
- Volmink, J
- Creator
- Walker, Roderick B
- Creator
- Ford, N
- Creator
- Katabira, E
- Creator
- Anema, A
- Creator
- Joffres, M
- Creator
- Cahn, P
- Creator
- Montaner, J
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6392
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006314
- Description
- (Conclusion) When the international community permits for-profit companies to actively entice overworked and often underpaid workers away from the most vulnerable populations, it is contributing to the deterioration of essential health-care delivery. Improvement of the health of the world’s poor is a challenge that the international community is failing to adequately address. Current international treaties and commitments are severely compromised if we are unwilling to adhere to their principles and prevent obvious harms to poor people. Clear, enforced regulation is needed to prevent recruitment companies from enticing health workers away from their local work, and developed countries should adequately compensate less-developed countries for the human resources they have lost and continue to lose.
- Format
- 9 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mills, E.J. and Schabas, W.A. and Volmink, J. and Walker, R.B. and Ford, N. and Katabira, E. and Anema, A. and Joffres, M. and Cahn, P. and Montaner, J. (2008) Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime? Lancet, 371 (9613). pp. 685-688. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60308-6
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