International health worker migration and recruitment : global governance, politics and policy
Nicola Yeates and Jane Pillinger
- London : Routledge, c2019.
- xvii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Routledge studies in governance and public policy .
• 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.
9781138933309
2019003889
Medical personnel Medical policy--International cooperation Occupational mobility Emigration and immigration--International cooperation