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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: An economic perspective on Malawi's medical "brain drain" | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Open Access An economic perspective on Malawi s medical brain drain Richard Record 1 and Abdu Mohiddin2 Address Trade and Private Sector Development Ministry of Industry PO Box 30366 Capital City Lilongwe 3 Malawi and 2Division of Health and Social Care Research Guy s King s and St Thomas School of Medicine Kings College London London SE1 3QD UK Email Richard Record - richardrecord@hotmail.com Abdu Mohiddin - abdumohiddin@doctors.org.uk Corresponding author Published 18 December 2006 Received 09 August 2006 Accepted 18 December 2006 Globalization and Health 2006 2 12 doi l0.ll86 l 744-8603-2-12 This article is available from http www.globalizationandhealth.cOm content 2 1 12 2006 Record and Mohiddin licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The medical brain drain has been described as rich countries looting doctors and nurses from developing countries undermining their health systems and public health. However this brain-drain might also be seen as a success in the training and export of health professionals and the benefits this provides. This paper illustrates the arguments and possible policy options by focusing on the situation in one of the poorest countries in the world Malawi. Discussion Many see this brain drain of medical staff as wrong with developed countries exploiting poorer ones. The effects are considerable with Malawi facing high vacancy rates in its public health system and with migration threatening to outstrip training despite efforts to improve pay and conditions. This shortage of staff has made it more challenging for Malawi to deliver on its Essential Health Package and to absorb new international health funding. Yet without any policy