Social ethics of global health recruitment
A DFG-funded research project in Christian Social Ethics
(2025–2028)
The project develops an overall picture of the socioethical challenges of international recruitment practices for healthcare professionals by distinguishing between three levels of actors:
Subproject 1
(Principal Investigator: Christof Mandry, Researcher: Moritz Broghammer, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main)
Subproject 1 examines the level of international regulation. It deals with existing agreements such as the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and analyzes the roles and positions of the WHO, ILO, and private international recruitment organizations. International Regulation . It deals with existing agreements such as the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and analyses the roles and positions of WHO, ILO and private international recruitment organisations.
Subproject 2
(Principal Investigator: Bernhard Emunds, Researcher: Lisa Neubauer, Phil.-Theol. Sankt Georgen University of Applied Sciences)
Subproject 2 analyzes the recruitment of skilled personnel by actors in the German healthcare system. It investigates the ethical profile of the practices of recruitment and integration of church and other non-state actors, as well as their political regulation. German health care system . It explores the ethical profile of recruitment and integration practices Ecclesiastical and others of non-state actors as well as their political regulation.
Subproject 3
(Principal Investigator: Jonas Hagedorn, Researcher: Leonie Uliczka, Faculty of Theology Paderborn)
Subproject 3 contributes the perspective of a country of origin of healthcare professionals by examining the interaction between state and private actors in the recruitment of healthcare professionals from Mexico and its effects on – among other things – the Mexican healthcare system. Country of origin health professionals by exemplifying the interaction between public and private actors in the context of the Recruitment from Mexico and its effects on the Mexican health system, among other things.
All three subprojects work closely together and follow a joint methodological approach that leads from descriptive to evaluative and finally to normative-prescriptive steps and reflections. The descriptive clarification of the central framework conditions is followed by an empirical assessment of the issues and the state of the debate. For this purpose, a discourse analysis is carried out in subproject 1; in subprojects 2 & 3, the analysis is based on expert interviews. Descriptive above evaluative finally to normative-prescriptive work steps and reflections. Thus, the descriptive clarification of the central framework conditions, an empirical inventory of the problems and the discussion situation. To this end, a discourse analysis will be carried out in subproject 1; in subprojects 2 & 3, the analysis is based on expert interviews.
In the subsequent ethical evaluation, these are assessed within the framework of social science discussions and systematized with reference to social ethical theory. The final normative-prescriptive step involves the development of an integrative socioethical concept, critically examining the systematized results of the previous steps. Finally, criteria for evaluating political options are developed at all three levels of actors and recommendations for concrete political measures are derived. Evaluation these are evaluated in the context of social science discussions and systematized with recourse to socio-ethical theory. The final normative-prescriptive The work step includes the development of an integrating socio-ethical concept with a critical examination of the systematized results of the previous work steps. From this, criteria for an evaluation of political options for action at all three levels of actors are developed and recommendations for concrete political measures are derived.
Contact
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Heike Probst
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Faculty of Theology Paderborn
Phone: +49 5251 121-720
E-mail: h.probst@thf-paderborn.de
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Enquiries on specific specialist topics
The entire list of the team with the corresponding responsibilities of the specialist areas can be found here: