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Item Restricted The impact of the migration of Filipino nurses on the Philippine health system(2004-10) Jimenez, Ma. Cecilia; Pacheco, Jamila LalaineThe migration of nurses has become a controversial issue in the recent years because of the numerous implications this has on a country's health system. Health being a labor-intensive sector, its health workers is considered one of its most important assets. The purpose of this research is to see if indeed the international migration of nurses has resulted to a decrease in the number of nurses, and if this reduction has affected the performance of the health system, in general. To study these effects, the researchers have done both quantitative and qualitative analysis since to do a quantitative analysis only is not sufficient to capture the full effects of migration. For the quantitative analysis, both simple and multiple regressions were performed. Data from the years 1980 to 2000 was used. For the descriptive analysis, costs and benefits regarding the effects of international migration to the health system was made. In conclusion, the researchers found that quantity-wise, nurses have mostly insignificant effect on the dependent variable used - maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, perinatal mortality rate, and death rate caused by circulatory diseases - except the death rate caused by malignant neoplasm, where it has even a positive relationship. In terms of quality however, it was found out that the said migration caused a substantial loss in skilled and experienced nurses.