Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviation -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Historical Trends and Globalization -- Chapter 3 Specialty Choice among Health Professionals and Its Health Labor Market Determinants -- Trends in Specialty Preference -- Student Characteristics -- Specialty Characteristics -- School Characteristics -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Value of Health Professional Education -- Alternative Cadres -- Estimated Rates of Return to Health Professional Education -- Chapter 5 The Market for Health Professional Education -- Linked Markets: Health Professional Education and Health Care -- Privatization of Health Professional Education in LMICs -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Discussion -- Research Implications -- Policy Implications -- Appendix A Literature Search Strategy -- Appendix B Coverage of the Literature in Relation to Private and Social Perspectives on the Rate of Return -- Appendix C Estimates of Private Rates of Return and Net Present Value -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 Market Failures in Health Worker Labor Markets -- 3.1 Effect of General Practitioners' Reimbursement on Supply in the United Kingdom -- 5.1 How Demographics and Positioning of the Nursing Profession Can Interrelate, Israel -- 5.2 Market Failure in Nepal -- Figures -- 1.1 The Interaction between Education Systems, Labor Markets, and Health Systems -- 3.1 The Bland-Meurer Model of Primary Care Career Choice for Physicians -- B3.1.1a Proportion of Graduating Cohorts in U.K. Medical Schools Choosing General Practice -- B3.1.1b General Practitioners' Annual Income -- 4.1 The Hours-adjusted Internal Rate of Return on Additional Training for Five Surgical Specialties and Primary Care Medicine -- 5.1 Interrelationships between Health Professional Job Market and Health Professional Education Market.

5.2 Founding Dates of Medical Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sector -- Tables -- A.1 Search Terms -- A.2 MESH Terms -- Back Cover.