Implications of nurse migration on source countries: The case of the Philippines

• Main Author: Bitanga, France June E.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Nurses—Supply and demand—Philippines; Nurses—Supply and demand; Foreign workers, Filipino; Emigrant remittances—Philippines; Labor Economics; Migration Studies; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6698
• Institution: De La Salle University

The employment demand of nurses abroad has serious repercussions to labor-sending countries. The push factors that impelled this movement resulting to local shortage must be determined in order to promote concrete alternatives. Reforms must be geared toward not only the improvement of the national health system, but the general condition of the country as well. This position is true where pursuing a nursing education has become a strategy to escape the nation’s poverty, in the light of the pull factors from destination countries. Albeit labor migration is treated as a strategy (e.g., remittances in the origin and supply of workers in the destination countries), it must be managed thru government priorities for the most pressing needs of the people, especially health. These will be discussed using the Philippine case yet with a kind of understanding which may be applied in the analysis of similar labor migration implications in the developing part of the world.