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Given the importance of health care in promoting economic and social development
mainly in the era where human development and Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
are crucial, the needs for medical doctors and health workers, in general, are increasingly
critical. This research is devoted to the analysis of the trends and determinants of the
emigration of medical doctors from MENA and ECE to EU in relation to health care
needs in both countries of origin and destination. This research accounts for the
specificities of health care in these three regions and includes also the constraints faced
by immigrant doctors in relation to medical practices in the EU. The respective roles of
public, private and of professional medical organizations impose requirements to access
medical jobs in the EU. These restrictions express the existence of specific interests at the
level of different parties. For the medical migrants, this can affect their levels of
incentives and decisions to emigrate.
The framework of the new economics of skilled labor migration is likely to strengthen the
health, education and employment sectors without omitting global policies. The results of
this approach are expected to generate win-win outcomes for all the players including the
countries of destination and origin of medical migration. Reaching such win-win
outcomes is indeed aligned with the growing concern of the EU as to the need to balance
its needs with those of developing countries, source of emigration of medical doctors
(The European Commission, 2008).
Further details about this research question are introduced below under the objectives of
the research, the rationale, the research questions and the expected benefits from this
investigation.
I.1.2.2 Objectives
As said earlier, the main objective of this research is to identify sound grounds for
generating economic and social policies that are beneficial to all the parties concerned
with the migration of medical doctors. The geographical focus includes MENA and ECE
economies with their relations to the EU. For this purpose, series of sub-objectives are to
be achieved mainly relation to the mobilization of the framework of the new economics
of skilled labor migration. Such economic model has the benefits of accounting for
health, education, employment and migration and preparing for the directions of new
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