Is East Africa Strained By Brain Drain? The Impact of Medical Migration on the Healthcare Crisis

University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

Author: Elizabeth Jenkins Sahlin; Melanie Weuste; [2017]

Keywords: Medical Migration; East Africa; Healthcare Crisis; Doctors; Brain Drain; Policies; Medicine and Health Sciences;

Abstract: This thesis explores the impact of medical migration on the healthcare crisis in East Africa. With a qualitative research design of ten semi-structured interviews it shall help to understand the relationship between medical migration and the healthcare crisis in East Africa. Accordingly, by interviewing doctors with ties to East Africa and relevant experiences for the topic of study, the following research question shall be answered: How do doctors’ experiences regarding medical migration in East Africa help to understand the healthcare crisis in the region?

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