The impact of the migration of health care workers on the countries involved: the Romanian situation

Abstract

This article examines the east-west migration of health care workers in the context of EU integration. Taking as its starting point three research studies carried out by the author into attitudes towards migration and the quality of professional life of Romanian heath care workers, the article pinpoints some of the major policy issues implicit in the migration debate, including the need of western states for labour to support their own health care systems and their ability to attract it in the context of a free market from states whose health care systems are less able to support the loss of personnel in this way. The article develops a formal theoretical model of the 'push' and 'pull' factors implicit in migration decisions and, in the context of an examination of the causes of migration, focuses on the factors which facilitate and discourage such decisions. It concludes with a study of the effects of migration, focusing largely on the health care systems of departing countries but also encompassing the impact in destination ones.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants During Transition and Enlargements

“…This last wave contains temporary migrant workers who are using cards and banking accounts, which significantly changes the behavior regarding remittances; moreover, they attempted to leave the country they moved to with the entire family tagging along, have a higher capacity for integration in the country of destination, and the labor migration may become permanent migration. According to a study conducted by the Romanian and an unsatisfactory career development system (Galan et al, 2011), as well as the overloading of the remaining staff with extra tasks (Rotila, 2008 23 A special Scholarship project intended for students wishing to undertake academic studies in a PhD or a Master degree at a foreign university, on the condition that they return to the country to work in a position 26…”