HEALTH WORKERS’ MIGRATION DURING THE CRISIS AND POST-CRISIS PERIOD: A CASE OF ROMANIA
HEALTH WORKERS’ MIGRATION DURING THE CRISIS AND POST-CRISIS PERIOD: A CASE OF ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Health is one of the critical sectors with impact on economic and social outcomes, as it is linked to productivity, human capital and resources’ availability contributing thus to economic growth and the sustainable development of society. Migration seems to be more and more evolving beyond the traditional push and pull factors documented exhaustively by the specialised literature. In Romania, the migration/mobility of health workers is the prevalent topic of concern, next to the quality of medical services, their availability, and the numbers of physicians both within the public and private sector. Their increased propensity for migration seems to exceed the well-known and documented push and pull factors of migration, as the pattern for taking the decision to migrate seems to contain considerations exceeding traditional individual aims. Therefore, economic-social analyses in this respect are of pressing interest and concern.The present paper intends to provide a brief analysis of the size and structure of the migration flows of Romanian health workers in the complex crisis and post-crisis European context as well as a short-term forecast. Moreover, it displays also the limits in applying analysis and forecast models as result of the few and scarce statistical data in the field.

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