Taking More Than a Fair Share? The Migration of Health Professionals from Poor to Rich Countries

Delanyo Dovlo

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020109

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Taking More Than a Fair Share? The Migration of Health Professionals from Poor to Rich Countries

Delanyo Dovlo

Taking More Than a Fair Share? The Migration of Health Professionals from Poor to Rich Countries

Delanyo Dovlo

Published: May 31, 2005
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020109

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Delanyo Dovlo

Competing Interests

The author is from Ghana, one of the countries with high physician flows to the United States.

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