Table 1 |
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Factors influencing health care professionals' intent to migrate, reason for migrating and willingness to remain in their home country |
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| For what reasons do you intend to leave your home country? |
For what reasons did you leave your home country? |
What would make you remain in your home country? |
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| Cameroon |
Upgrade qualifications (85%) |
Recruited (29%) |
Salary (68%) |
| Gain experience (80%) |
Gain experience (28%) |
Continuing education (67%) |
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| Lack of promotion (80%) |
Better pay (27%) |
Working environment (64%) |
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| Living conditions (80%) |
Living conditions (19%) |
Health care system management (55%) |
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| Ghana |
Gain experience (86%) |
Salary (81%) |
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| Lack of promotion (86%) |
Work environment (64%) |
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| Despondency (86%) |
Fringe benefits (77%) |
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| Living conditions, Economic decline (71%) |
Resources in health sector (70%) |
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| Senegal |
Salary (89%) |
Work environment (n/a) |
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| N/a |
Salary (n/a) |
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| N/a |
Better career path (n/a) |
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| N/a |
Benefits (n/a) |
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| South Africa |
Gain experience (43%) |
Salary (78%) |
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| Violence and crime (38%) |
Work environment (68%) |
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| Heavy workload (41%) |
Fringe benefits (66%) |
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| Declining health service (38%) |
Workload (59%) |
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| Uganda |
Salary (72%) |
Salary (55%) |
Salary (84%) |
| Living conditions (41%) |
Economic decline (55%) |
Fringe benefits (54%) |
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| Upgrade qualifications (38%) |
Save money (54%) |
Work environment (36%) |
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| Gain experience (24%) |
Declining health service (53%) |
Workload (30%) |
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| Zimbabwe |
All factors |
All factors |
All factors |
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Source: [19] |
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Vujicic et al. Human Resources for Health 2004 2:3 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-2-3 |
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