The brain drain potential of skilled health workers from sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of pharmacy students in Nigeria

Amorha, Kosisochi Chinwendu; Irobi, Chinemerem; Udoh, Arit

doi:10.46542/pe.2022.221.654663

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“…In another operating business environment, the recent study of Zeng et al (2022) demonstrated the performance of Kenya's healthcare service delivery from government ineptitude nature through hybrid method. Another more recent study conducted by Amorha et al (2022) established potentials of brain-drain challenges of skilled healthcare employees. It is worthy to establish that none of these studies as recent as they were investigated the personnel brain-drain effect on quality healthcare delivery as this present study.…”

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“…While in Sierra Leone, a physician takes home as higher as $2000. Meanwhile, doctors in the United Kingdom, the USA and Saudi Arabia earn ten times higher than Nigerian doctors with a better work environment and retirement benefits (Amorha, Irobi, & Udoh, 2022). This naturally appeals to the sentiment of emigrating Nigerian doctors to these nations.…”

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Personnel brain-drain syndrome and quality healthcare delivery among public healthcare workforce in Nigeria

Akinwale

George

2022

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PurposeThe mass exodus of the professional healthcare workforce has become a cankerworm for a developing nation like Nigeria, and this worsens the already depleted healthcare systems in underdeveloped nation. This study investigated the rationale behind medical workers' brain-drain syndrome and the quality healthcare delivery in the Nigerian public healthcare sector.Design/methodology/approachTo stimulate an understanding of the effect of the phenomenon called brain drain, the study adopted a diagnostic research design to survey the public healthcare personnel in government hospitals. The study administered a battery of adapted research scales of different measures to confirm the variables of interest of this study on a probability sampling strategy. The study surveyed 450 public healthcare sector employees from four government hospitals to gather pertinent data. The study used a structural equation model (SEM) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) to analyse the collected data from the medical personnel of government hospitals.FindingsThe findings of this study are significant as postulated. The study discovered that poor quality worklife experienced by Nigerian medical personnel was attributed to the brain-drain effect and poor healthcare delivery. The study further demonstrated that job dissatisfaction suffered among the public healthcare workforce forced the workforce to migrate to the international labour market, and this same factor is a reason for poor healthcare delivery. Lastly, the study discovered that inadequate remuneration and pay discouraged Nigerian professionals and allied healthcare workers from being productive and ultimately pushed them to the global market.Originality/valuePractically, this study has shown three major elements that caused the mass movement of Nigerian healthcare personnel to other countries of the world and that seems novel given the peculiarity of the Nigerian labour market. The study is original and novel as much study has not been put forward in the public healthcare sector in Nigeria concerning this phenomenon.

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Personnel brain-drain syndrome and quality healthcare delivery among public healthcare workforce in Nigeria

Akinwale

George

2022

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“…The fact that the idea of brain drain is widespread not only among medical students but also among students of nursing and other health professions shows that the negative effects of health policies on these groups should not be underestimated (15)(16)(17).…”

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Factors predicting the motivation to study abroad in Turkish medical students: a causal investigation into the problem of brain drain

KAYA

AKTÜRK

Aslan

2023

Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine

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Aim: We aimed to examine the frequency of plans to practice medicine abroad in medical school students and the related variables, in relation to the recently increasing brain drain in physicians in our country. Material and Method: A total of 82 volunteer students in the 5th and 6th grades were included in the study. Our study is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. A questionnaire was directed to the participants about sociodemographic data, attitudes towards the medical profession, the reasons that make it difficult to practice medicine in our country, the idea of working abroad, and the attractive features of abroad opportunities for students. In addition, the World Health Organization Quality-of-Life Scale (WHOQOL-Bref) to measure the quality of life of the students and the Perceived Stress Scale-14 (PSS-14) to measure the stress level were applied. The data were analyzed in SPSS (21.0) program. Results: 56% Of the participants were female (n=46), 44% (n=39) were male, and the mean age was 24.07 ±1.65. Majority of the students (94%, n=77) stated that they thought of doing medicine abroad, and nearly half of them (46%, n=38) stated that they were determined on this issue. The answers given by the students to the question why they preferred medical school were as follows: Job guarantee (79%), income comfort (77%) and prestige (70%). Majority of the participants stated that they felt regret from time to time for choosing medical school (58.5%, n=48) and 45% (n=37) stated that they thought of leaving medical school in the past. The following answers were frequently given to the question of the most important reasons that make it difficult to practice the profession of medicine in our country: Heavy working conditions and long working hours (90%), verbal/physical violence against physicians (87%), mobbing and pressure applied by seniors/administrators in the workplace. (67%). The countries respondents considered to immigrate frequently were: Germany, UK and USA. The mean PSS-14 score of the participants was found to be 1.98±0.49, and there was no significant difference between those who thought to practice medicine abroad and those who did not. In the Pearson correlation test, it was determined that there was a significant and negative correlation between the WHOQOL-Bref and PSS-14 scores (r=-0.620, p

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Migration relates to the movement of a person from the usual place of residence to another place, within or across international borders, temporarily or permanently, and usually for different reasons (IOM, 2023). However, the common movement pattern is from a low-resource area to a high-resource area (e.g., rural to urban area) or a low-income to a high-income country (Amorha et al, 2022). This pattern of migration may result in a brain drain of the low-resource area and brain gain to the high-resource area (Anduaga-Beramendi et al, 2019).

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Investigating the emigration intention of health care workers: A cross‐sectional study

Badru,

Alabi,

Okerinde

et al. 2024

Nursing Open

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AimsTo (1) explore the intramigration experience of HCWs within Nigeria, (2) explore the migration intention of health care workers (HCWs) in Nigeria and (3) identify the predictors of migration intention among HCWs in Nigeria.DesignCross‐sectional study.MethodsThe online survey was used to collect data from 513 HCWs in Nigeria between May and June 2023. Crude and adjusted logistic regression were used to identify factors associated with emigration intention. Analyses were performed on SPSS version 26 at a 95% confidence interval.ResultsThe study found that 34.4% had intramigration experience, and the rate of intention to emigrate to work in another country was 80.1%. The United Kingdom was the most preferred destination (109 HCWs), followed by Canada (92 HCWs) and the United States (82 HCWs). At the multivariate level, emigration intention was associated with the experience of burnout and duration of practice as a HCW. Nurses had higher emigration intentions than medical doctors.ConclusionsMany HCWs in Nigeria appear to have emigration intent, and nurses are more likely to be willing to migrate than doctors. The Nigerian government may want to explore strategies to reverse the emigration intent of the HCWs in Nigeria.

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The brain drain potential of skilled health workers from sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of pharmacy students in Nigeria

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Personnel brain-drain syndrome and quality healthcare delivery among public healthcare workforce in Nigeria

Personnel brain-drain syndrome and quality healthcare delivery among public healthcare workforce in Nigeria

Factors predicting the motivation to study abroad in Turkish medical students: a causal investigation into the problem of brain drain

Investigating the emigration intention of health care workers: A cross‐sectional study

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