LEGAL INSTRUMENTS ON INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT OF HEALTH PERSONNEL
LEGAL INSTRUMENTS ON INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT OF HEALTH PERSONNEL

Summary/Abstract: International migration of healthcare professionals has increased in the last decade, emphasising the question of medical staff crisis in some countries. In this context, the international recruitment of health personnel appears to be lately an usual practice for some countries to cover their needs in health care. That is possible due to income differences between countries, that motivate physicians to migrate. Now this is an unavoidable fact, but the resulting ethical problems cannot be ignored, like the unbalance in the developing countries healthcare systems by losing physicians. The whole practice became morally questionable with international ongoing efforts to solve it one as the recruitments codes. Thus, after adopting regional codes and interstate memoranda, in 2010 the World Health Organisation adopts The Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel to use it as a landmark for establishing and improving the necessary legal framework of medical staff international recruitment. Our research aims to highlight in their evolution the ethical and praxiological codes regarding the medical staff recruitment and to analyse the effectiveness of those codes, as well as the consequences that might result from disobeying them.

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