Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers That is Truly Ethical

Global Health Policy: Way to Go, WHO! Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers That is Truly Ethical:

"...it is all about ensuring that internationally recruited health workers know what they’re getting into, get treated fairly, and don’t get exploited, and that states monitor heath worker movement so they can plan accordingly. All great ideas.

In fact, the draft code goes out of its way to condemn coercive limitations on health workers’ movement:

“Nothing in this code should be interpreted as impinging on the rights of health personnel to migrate to countries that wish to admit and employ them.”

Refreshingly, it stresses that the way to keep health workers in developing countries is to give them safe and dignified working conditions, rather than coerce them to stay by taking away job opportunities abroad via recruitment bans:

“Member States should recognize that improving the social and economic status of health personnel, their living and working conditions, their opportunities for employment and their career prospects is an important means of overcoming existing shortages and improving retention of a skilled health workforce.”"