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International healthcare worker migration in Asia Pacific: International policy responses
The growth of the international migration of health workers in recent decades has taken place in the context of the transnationalisation of healthcare provision as well as of governance and policy responses. This paper examines international policy responses to cross-border health worker migration in the Asia Pacific region. These include multilateral (global and regional) and bilateral policy agreements, policy dialogue and programmes of action in relation to key issues of ethical recruitment, âcircularâ migration and labour rights and key themes of health workforce planning and management. The paper brings original new analysis of international datasets and secondary data to bear on the pressing and important questions of what international policy initiatives and responses are at work in the Asia Pacific region, and what these mean for the nature of migration governance in the region. The paper's focus routes the evidence and argument towards current research and policy debates about the relationship between health worker migration, health worker shortages and poor health outcomes. In this, the paper brings new insights into the analysis of the international policy âuniverseâ through its emphasis on multiple and intersecting cross-border institutions, initiatives and actors operating across different scales. Coherent national and international strategies for integrated health worker migration governance and policy need to incorporate these insights, and the paper considers their implications for current strategies to attain universal health care and improved health outcomes in Asia Pacific and beyond
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Human Resources for Health Migration: global policy responses, initiatives, and emerging issues
This report identifies and maps contemporary global policy responses to, and initiatives on, international HRH migration, with particular reference to lowâincome source countries. It reports on a systematic review and analysis of the responses and initiatives of twelve multilateral organisations and global fora: European Union; Global Forum on Migration and Development; Global Health Workforce Alliance; International Labour Organization; International Organization for Migration; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; PanâAmerican Health Organization; UN Global Migration Group; UN HighâLevel Dialogue on Migration and Development; World Bank; World Health Organization; and the World Trade Organization.
The report documents how these global policy actors are presently engaging with the HRH migration field through their activities, initiatives and policy responses. It situates this engagement within global policy initiatives spanning health, migration and development. In addition to reviewing and mapping current initiatives and policy responses and their outcomes, the report identifies emerging issues, upcoming promising initiatives and global policy scenarios
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International Organisations, Care and Migration: The case of migrant health care workers
This chapter focuses on international health care worker migration to illustrate shifting constellations of architectures of ideas, actors and institutions in global social governance and policy. The phenomenon of health worker migration and how the international community should respond to it is one that has long preoccupied International Organizations (IOs) (Yeates and Pillinger 2019a, b). It is the earliest case of care as an overtly institutionalized feld of global social policy, long predating IOsâ initiatives on childcare, domestic care and care of migrants. It has been an active area of global social policymaking throughout the post-WWII period. Thus, a discernible global social policy feld of health care worker migration was instituted from the outset of the United Nations (UN), developing and expanding over the ensuing decades. As the chapter shows, this global policy feld is complex, contested and dynamic. It is populated by numerous IOs and other transnational actors promulgating myriad discourses, forging international agreements and entering into partnershipâsome are complementary, others are competing
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Building Resilience Across Borders: a Policy Brief on health worker migration
This Policy Brief aims to raise awareness and stimulate discussion about migration in the light of recent global policy developments on health worker migration, setting this in the context of impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents efforts of public service trade unions to promote rights-based and sustainable approaches to migration, ethical recruitment and the role and contribution of public services to positive migration outcomes. Insights are also given into how the global union federation - Public Services International (PSI) â has added a critical voice to the emerging policy of global governance on international migration and the role that public services play in creating rights based and sustainable global policy on international migration. Finally, the Policy Brief looks critically at some of the strategies being promoted in achieving global SDGs and sets out the urgent case (in a Five-Point Plan) for continued and transformational policy and advocacy work in this field
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What we know about their situation. Migrant health and care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Risks and Responses: what risks did migrant health care workers face during the Covid-19 pandemic? what were the responses of governments and other stakeholders?
This Factsheet draws on OU and PSI research2 carried out in 2022, which found that migrant health workers are regularly and disproportionately exposed to occupational health hazards, and are at a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 and experiencing severe harm and death. Policy responses have not addressed these additional risks and have not addressed health workforce shortages, putting health care workers and population health in harmâs way
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Trade union response to the challenges faced by migrant health and social care workers.
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Impacts of Covid-19 on migrant health workers: a review of evidence and implications for health care provision
Migrant workers have been at high risk of contracting Covid-19 and experiencing adverse outcomes from it. This paper reviews research evidence from academic and grey literatures as regards how the pandemic has impacted on migrant health workers. Five principal factors stand out as exacerbating the risks to such workers: health workforce shortages; decent work deficits, including lack of social protection; discrimination, violence and harassment; absence of social dialogue, and changing patterns of international recruitment. These factors are interlocking and have highly consequential implications not only for the rights and welfare of those workers but also for the provision of universal health care and realising rights-based, people-centered sustainable development for all countries