Central to the problem of academic emigration are issues of supply, demand, and mobility, as well as limitation in specific areas of postgraduate education and career development, and comparatively poor working conditions for those scientists emanating from southern Africa (8).
Many respondents also argued that it was not reasonable or fair to single out the health care workers from the larger problem of the emigration of all types of skilled professionals from SSA countries.
If Egypt is allowed to find its own way, as it so promisingly began to do over the past week, the problems of violent extremism and waves of emigration that America and Europe most fear from this unhappy region could well fade as its disaffected youth at last find hope at home.
Methods 1-6 and 8-11 have been previously used but, as alluded to above, there are some potential problems with these methods identifying a point of emigration that does not fit the observed location pattern.
Staffing problems include emigration of health workers, limited training opportunities, illness among health workers and increased demand for treatment [ 3- 5].
Meanwhile, Greece, plagued by an unattractive combination of fiscal problems, austerity and unemployment, has seen a new wave of emigration, notably to America and Canada.
Subjects who emigrated were censored at the date of emigration.
Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where there are genuine shortages, the countries with the worst-performing health sectors are generally those with the lowest levels of emigration of health professionals – so emigration is clearly not the main problem.
Others, despairing, talked of emigration.
