Migration of Health Personnel: Source of Inequalities in Health in Romania
Migration of Health Personnel: Source of Inequalities in Health in Romania

Summary/Abstract: Although the international migration of healthcare workforce is not itself a cause of global crisis in health workforce, yet it stresses this problem in some countries. At global level, the migration can reduce in some destination countries the health inequalities by covering the shortage of medical personnel, but international migration of healthcare personnel from countries which have allready lack of medical personnel stresses the global inequalities concerning the access to healthcare services. The aim of this study is to analyze to what extend the Romanian medical migration stresses the inequalities in the Romanian health care system in term of pacient access to quality health services. Also, possible solutions for the equitable distribution of health services due to migration of health care personnel were identified. The findings of the study are based on documentary analysis of national and international source of information as official statistics, legislative frame, public reports of Eurostat, OECD, WHO, studies of National Institute of Statistics, critical and comparative analysis, case study:Romania. The migration of Romanian health personnel is one of the factors contributing to growing inequalities in health. This study outlines the need for improved health policies that could correct the shortage of medical personnel caused by migration, in order to meet the current needs of health services of each person fairly.

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