[e-drug] Brain drain of pharmacists

E-drug: Brain drain of pharmacists
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Dear E-Drug members,

This week's BMJ has an article and a set of rapid responses on
brain drain of doctors:

Recruiting doctors from poor countries: the great brain robbery?
Vikram Patel, BMJ, vol 327, 18 Oct, 2003
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7420/926

Brain drain has also been covered recently in The Lancet and the
Bulletin of the WHO (listed below).

All of these articles focus on doctors and/or nurses. Does anyone
know of, or has any E-Drugger done, research into the brain drain
of pharmacists?

Thank you,

Libby Levison
International health consultant
Boston, MA, USA
email: libby@theplateau.com

Other articles:
Brain drain and health professionals. Tikki Pang, Mary Ann
Lansang, Andy Haines. BMJ vol 324, 2 March 2002.

Medical migration: who are the real losers? Peter Bundred, Cheryl
Levitt. The Lancet, vol 356, July 15, 2000

Trade in health services. Rupa Chanda. Bulletin of the WHO, 2002,
80 (2).

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