HLTA02H3 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Textbook Notes
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Chapter 5: on the move: the migration of physicians and nurses into and out of canada. Health care workers have long been nationally and internationally mobile, but this has increased more recently both in terms of size and velocity. Concerns about the international migration of health care providers have become a more prominent and controversial feature of health sector analysis in recent years in light of severe staff and skill shortages in health systems of many countries. We are not just an exporter of health labour, but a significant importer as well. Canada has historically relied extensively on foreign health labour to help solve shortages in rural and remote under serviced areas and in urban subspecialties. Today, immigrant doctors account for roughly one quarter of all physicians practicing in canada; similarly, six to seven percent of all nurses have been trained in other jurisdictions.
