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| Title |
Gone for good? An online survey of emigrant health professionals using Facebook as a recruitment tool
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| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, June 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12960-016-0130-y |
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| Authors |
Sara McAleese, Barbara Clyne, Anne Matthews, Ruairí Brugha, Niamh Humphries |
| Abstract |
Health professionals, particularly doctors, nurses and midwives, are in high demand worldwide. Therefore, it is important to assess the future plans and likelihood of return of emigrating health professionals. Nevertheless, health professionals are, by definition, a difficult population to track/survey. This exploratory study reports on the migration intentions of a sample of doctors, nurses and midwives who had emigrated from Ireland, a high-income country which has experienced particularly high outward and inward migration of health professionals since the year 2000. Health professionals who had emigrated from Ireland were identified via snowball sampling through Facebook and invited to complete a short online survey composed of closed and open response questions. A total of 388 health professionals (307 doctors, 73 nurses and 8 midwives) who had previously worked in Ireland completed the survey. While over half had originally intended to spend less than 5 years in their destination country at the time of emigration, these intentions changed over time, with the desire to remain abroad on a permanent basis increasing from 10 to 34 % of doctor respondents. Only a quarter of doctors and a half of nurses and midwives intended to return to practice in Ireland in the future. The longer health professionals remain abroad, the less likely they are to return to their home countries. Countries should focus on the implementation of retention strategies if the 'carousel' of brain drain is to be interrupted. This would allow source countries to benefit from their investments in training health professionals, rather than relying on international recruitment to meet health system staffing needs. Improved data collection systems are also needed to track the migratory patterns and changing intentions of health professionals. Meanwhile, social networking platforms offer alternative methods of filling this information gap. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 4 | 29% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 5 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 64% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 21% |
| Scientists | 1 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 151 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 151 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 23 | 15% |
| Lecturer | 22 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 11% |
| Researcher | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 26 | 17% |
| Unknown | 41 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 48 | 32% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 17 | 11% |
| Unknown | 46 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2023.
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#47
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