Abstract
International migration of health workers has been a subject of concern since the 1950s. Recently, however, issues of international migration of health workers have acquired enhanced attention due to a steep increase in the recruitment of developing country doctors, nurses and other health professionals by the advanced nations. By employing fixed effect panel regression and ANOVA, this paper aims to investigate if there was any significant effect of emigration of doctors and nurses on a large emigration countries’, like India and Philippines, capacity to address maternal and child health targets of the SDGs between 2012-2021. Further, if there was a variation of the impact of health workers migration from India and the Philippines vis-à-vis the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguard countries capacity to address maternal and child health targets of the SDGs between 2012-2021.International migration of health workers has been a subject of concern since the 1950s. Recently, however, issues of international migration of health workers have acquired enhanced attention due to a steep increase in the recruitment of developing country doctors, nurses and other health professionals by the advanced nations. By employing fixed effect panel regression and ANOVA, this paper aims to investigate if there was any significant effect of emigration of doctors and nurses on a large emigration countries’, like India and Philippines, capacity to address maternal and child health targets of the SDGs between 2012-2021. Further, if there was a variation of the impact of health workers migration from India and the Philippines vis-à-vis the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguard countries capacity to address maternal and child health targets of the SDGs between 2012-2021.