Non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland: applying a typology of health worker migration

نویسندگان

  • Niamh Humphries
  • Sara McAleese
  • Ella Tyrrell
  • Steve Thomas
  • Charles Normand
  • Ruairi Brugha
چکیده

Background Research on health worker migration in the Irish context has previously sought to categorize migrant health workers by country or region of training (e.g. non-EU nurses or doctors), by migration channel or mechanism (e.g. actively recruited nurses). This paper applies a recently developed typology of health worker migration [1], to the experiences of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland and considers the value of a typology of health worker migration to human resource management internationally.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014