Ayaz Ayub, Sher Bahadur.
Brain drain human resources and human capital growth in Pakistan: a Political and economical perspective.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;4(1):32-8.

Health human resources play a vital role in the economy of a country however imbalance in the health workforce is emerging challenge for the policy makers. Mostly policies neglect the importance of human resource development and regional disparities. Migration of health workforce from developing country to industrialized country has picked up the pace, and act as threat to developing countries to meet their health care needs (1, 2). Apart from such transitions, there is regional disparity of health workforce in developing country . Signicant disparities of health workforce at regional and national level are seen due to varying push and pull factors. These regional disparities could be overcome by competent and knowledge spillovers of a country but unfortunately the developing country experienced lower returns to skill attainment and hence have reduced the health expenditure which in turn caused in poor health indicators(3). As a result of migration, and giving emphasis to work in urban areas; human capital levels are increasingly deviate across the region. The political commitment and policy assistance at country and regional level can enhance the human resource development and reduce disparity (2, 3). This paper will address the economic and political perspective of health workforce development; highlight the reasons of imbalance human resource at country and regional level due to brain drain, and at last after assessing all factors provide a way forward for sustainable health workforce.

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