ASEAN integration and health services

[...]the supply-side constraints, such as inadequate numbers of health workers, become my particular concern since the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) movement includes promotion of different forms of trade in health services, ranging from exports of cross-border health care to migration of health professionals and direct foreign investment in the health sector. The expansion of private health care has led to the rise in professional fees and salaries widening income gaps and causing the 'Brain-drain' problem in the public sector (2).