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Figure III.1.12: Factors contributing to the emigration of South African nurses
Source: Oosthuizen and Ehlers, 2007 (fig. 1)
Asides from the pull factors, push factors play a considerable role into favoring the
migration of health care takes to better skies. Stilwell et al., (2004) and Robinson et al.
(2008), and Berliner and Ginzberg (2003), for example, state that the shortage of supply
of health professionals in destination countries is the major reason for the high
immigration of health workers. Aside from higher wages and better working conditions,
the assurance that a health professional will find a job in the destination country is a
major incentive to migrate. Most of the destination countries, as shown in table III.1.9,
are USA, UK and Western Europe.
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