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Retaining the Health Workforce: Policies Against Skill Flight

Analysing what drives health-worker emigration and how retention packages affect service stability.

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Abstract

This study analyses what drives the emigration of Arab health workers and measures the effect of financial versus non-financial retention packages on staying. It finds that professional progression outranks pay in the decisions of younger physicians, and proposes a package ordered accordingly.

Health WorkforceSkill Flight

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References

  1. Nima, B. (2025). Health financing and shock absorption. Journal of Health Policy, 6(2), 22–49.

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Basel Nima. (2026). Retaining the Health Workforce: Policies Against Skill Flight. EISSL.

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