ArticlePloS one2018
Home is home-Botswana's return migrant health workers.
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- `This is our country and somehow, we have to make it work': a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study of the enablers of non-migration and return migration in a cohort of Nigerian medical doctors and dentists.Global health action · 2026Article
- Healthcare professionals on the move: understanding the drivers of migration from Türkiye - a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- The return of Chinese nurses from overseas (2009-2023): a mixed-method study on influencing factors.Globalization and health · 2025Article
- There Is No Place Like Home: A Meta-Ethnography Exploring The Experiences of International Medical Graduates Following Return Migration to Their Home Country.The clinical teacher · 2025Review
- Perceptions and Reintegration Experiences of Albanian Health Care Staff Returning from Abroad.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The hidden curriculum: examining gender disparities in career trajectories of female medical graduates from Nepal.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Dynamics and factors influencing return migration to Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2023Review
- A meta-synthesis of the transitioning experiences and career progression of migrant African nurses.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country.Global health action · 2022Article
- Experiences of Healthcare Worker Returnees in Their Home Countries: A Scoping Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
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Abstract
The shortage of skilled healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa is aggravated by their emigration to high resource countries. There is evidence that a small number of healthcare workers return to their home countries. It is important to understand the factors that influence decisions to return in order to develop appropriate strategies to attract more back. This study sought to investigate the perspectives of healthcare workers who returned to Botswana after working in the diaspora. We conducted semi-structured interviews of 8 healthcare workers. Using the thematic analysis method we developed a thematic index to code the data. The main reasons for returning were family ties and missing home whilst the key reasons for emigration were concerns about the quality of health care, lack of professional progression opportunities and feeling under-valued. Difficulties reintegrating into the Botswana health care system are a potential push factors for those who return. Policies that aim to attract back healthcare workers should address professional progression, reintegration and improvement of the healthcare system.
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