Migration of oral health professionals: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Each year, many dental professionals are trained; however, many low-income and middle-income countries face a scarcity of dental professionals. This trend has been observed because of the migration of oral health professionals from developing to developed countries for various reasons such as professional, economic or personal. This negatively impacts the healthcare system by causing critical shortages of trained personnel to support the oral healthcare needs of the countries where the oral health professionals migrate from (source countries). The key objectives of this scoping review are to assess the intentions behind the migrations, identify the countries the graduates migrate to and from, examine the barriers to and facilitators of integrating oral health professio

SUBMITTER: Ram A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10106043 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature