Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Chapter 1: The global dynamics of international health worker-migration and-recruitment policy
• 1 Global governance, social policy and a new lens on health worker-migration
• 2 Aims and scope of the book
• 3 Why international health worker-migration and-recruitment? Evidence, theory, and policy
• 3.1 International migration and recruitment, health workforce availability and universal health coverage
• 3.2 Globalising) dynamics of health and social policy: interdependencies among unequal partners
• 3.3 Analytics of global governance and policy
• 4 Method and evidence
• 5 Outline and structure of the book
• 6 A note on terminology and values
• Notes
• Chapter 2: Initiating the global policy field: The role of the UN
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Activating ILO and WHO mandates
• 3 Early UN action on the migration of highly skilled labor
• 3.1 UNGA and ECOSOC lead the call to action
• 3.2 Towards a global 'brain drain' policy: the role of UNESCO and UNSG
• 3.3 UNESCO's radicalism: gaining ground?
• 4 UNCTAD reframes the debate: from 'brain drain' to resource drain
• 4.1 Bringing labor content into international capital flows
• 4.2 Elaborating global policy ideas: financial recompense and international resource flow accounting
• 4.3 Global policy legacies
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 3: Elaborating the global policy field: The 1977 Nursing Personnel Recommendation
• 2 WHO joins the debate on highly skilled labor shortages and outflows
• 2.1 WHO enters the global policy field
• 2.2 WHO's first landmark study of international health worker-migration.
• 3 The first global policy instrument: the ILO Nursing Personnel Recommendation
• 3.1 Resurgent ILO activism on global labor migration
• 3.2 The ILO Nursing Personnel instruments
• 3.3 The institutional passage of the Recommendation: a case of non-contestation?
• 4 Developments at WHO
• 4.1 After the Mejia study: WHO disengagement
• 4.2 Developing countries respond: activism at WHA
• Chapter 4: The rise of 'ethical recruitment': Momentum without enforcement
• 2 Changing institutional architectures and dynamics of global governance
• 2.1 Global trade and business governance
• 2.2 Global health governance
• 2.3 Global labour governance
• 2.4 Global migration governance
• 2.5 Global advocacy actors and networks
• 3 The rise of ethical recruitment codes and frameworks
• 4 WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
• 4.1 Background to the negotiation for the Global Code
• 4.2 The negotiations leading up to the Global Code
• 4.3 Gaining agreement for the Global Code
• 4.4 Adoption of the Global Code
• Chapter 5: Implementing the WHO Global Code of Practice: Momentum sustained?
• 2 Implementation mechanisms established under the Code
• 3 Overview of results from the first two reporting rounds
• 4 Assessing the implementation of the Code: achievements and challenges
• 4.1 Key achievements and strengths
• 4.2 Weaknesses and challenges
• 5 The regulation of private enterprises: a neglected issue
• 5.1 Growth of the international labour recruitment and staffing industry
• 5.2 Unethical business practices and labour exploitation
• 5.3 Strengthening the global governance of recruitment and staffing companies
• 6 Conclusion
• Chapter 6: Bilateral agreements: A resurgent feature of global policy.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Bilateralist labour, migration and health strategies
• 3 Global calls for bilateral action: institutions, rationales and limitations
• 4 Global overview of bilateral agreements on health worker-migration and -recruitment
• 4.1 WHO National Reporting Instrument reports database
• 4.2 Overview of findings from analysis of the database
• 5 Qualitative aspects of bilateral agreements: raising social standards?
• 5.1 'Good practice' exemplars: a widespread phenomenon?
• 5.2 Promoting temporary and circular migration
• 5.3 'Thin' compensatory mechanisms
• Chapter 7: The global campaign for universal health coverage: The SDGs and beyond
• 2 Global policy challenges
• 3 Landmark initiatives: the SDGs and the Global Compact
• 3.1 The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
• 3.2 The UN Global Compact for Human Mobility and Migration
• 4 Health workforces for universal health coverage: the emergence of coordinated leverage?
• 4.1 Universal health coverage: a state responsibility?
• 4.2 WHO's global health workforce strategy
• 4.3 UN High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth
• 4.4 ILO campaigns on fair recruitment and decent work
• 5 The shifting contours of global health: enlarging corporate policy space?
• 5.1 Global skills partnerships: a new impasse or an opportunity?
• 5.2 Human rights and global capital: initiatives to regulate business practices
• 5.3 Global advocacy and civil society mobilisation
• Chapter 8: Conclusions: Towards a new world order for health
• 2 Analysing global governance and global policy formation
• 2.1 Critical junctures: review
• 2.2 Reflections on findings
• 3 Shared global responsibility in health
• 3.1 Strengthen the implementation of existing mechanisms.
• 3.2 Global health governance renewal: new instruments
• 3.3 A socially-progressive trade agenda
• 3.4 Fair treatment of migrant health workers
• 4 Mobilising research and advocacy for a new world order for health
• Note
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Appendix 4: SDG goals and targets pertaining to international health worker-migration and-recruitment
• Goal 1 End Poverty
• Goal 3 Good Health and WellBeing
• Goal 4 Quality education
• Goal 5 Gender Equality
• Goal 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities
• Goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• Goal 17 Partnerships for the goals
• References
• Index.