Title |
The cost of health professionals' brain drain in Kenya
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, December 2006
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-6-89 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Akpa Raphael Gbary, Lenity Kainyu Muthuri, Jennifer Nyoni, Anthony Seddoh |
Abstract |
Past attempts to estimate the cost of migration were limited to education costs only and did not include the lost returns from investment. The objectives of this study were: (i) to estimate the financial cost of emigration of Kenyan doctors to the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA); (ii) to estimate the financial cost of emigration of nurses to seven OECD countries (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, UK, USA); and (iii) to describe other losses from brain drain. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Kenya | 12 | 40% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
Canada | 2 | 7% |
India | 1 | 3% |
United States | 1 | 3% |
South Africa | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 11 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 24 | 80% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 13% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Scientists | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 321 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Thailand | 1 | <1% |
Austria | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 316 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 61 | 19% |
Researcher | 37 | 12% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 10% |
Lecturer | 30 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 23 | 7% |
Other | 73 | 23% |
Unknown | 64 | 20% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 88 | 27% |
Social Sciences | 50 | 16% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 48 | 15% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 16 | 5% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 11 | 3% |
Other | 30 | 9% |
Unknown | 78 | 24% |
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