Lebanon is witnessing an increased emigration of physicians.
Even though the programme achieved some success, in general it led to increased emigration of graduate students [ 75].
High unemployment and a stagnant economy in the late 1990s led to the increasing emigration of Moldovans.
Using experiences from sub-Saharan Africa, wastage of health workers is illustrated by factors such as increased pre-retirement mortality, early and premature retirement, increased emigration and high levels of workplace accidents and injury.
The exposition of resting stages which usually lie on the bedrock surface of dry rock pools may be a further beneficial aspect of droughts [14], as it may increase emigration by means of wind or birds [27], [32].
With increasing emigration and refugeeism, millions of children who have experienced war now also inhabit countries with no active conflicts.
Third, physicians may opt to delay their registration until they complete their residency training; it is thus not clear whether a delayed registration versus increasing emigration explains the relatively low percentage of registration by Lebanese medical graduates of recent years.
The decimation of the health workforce in developing countries has also been attributed to increasing emigration rates [ 6].
Therefore, we sought to examine possible reasons for this emigration wave by increasing the present understanding of job satisfaction in German hospitals.
Lebanese policy makers should not be reassured by the slowing of the growth of the workforce as this statistic may in fact reflect an increasing rate of emigration of physicians.
