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Migration des professionnels de santé de pays d'Afrique subsaharienne et politique de substitution

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  • Arnaud Bourgain
  • Patrice Pieretti
  • Benteng Zou

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Substitution policies are strategies sometimes chosen in Sub-Saharan Africa for curtailing the shortage of health professionals especially caused by the outflow of medical personnel. The aim of our contribution is to propose a way to assess the merits and drawbacks of substitution policies by developing a simple growth model of healthcare productivity with medical brain drain. Within this framework, we use a medical care production function of the ces type which aggregates low and high specialized health workers. We then run simulations which compare scenarios with and without substitution strategies by using data from the Ghana?s medical sector. Classification JEL : I18, F220.

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  • Arnaud Bourgain & Patrice Pieretti & Benteng Zou, 2010. "Migration des professionnels de santé de pays d'Afrique subsaharienne et politique de substitution," Revue économique, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 61(6), pages 1011-1022.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:recosp:reco_616_1011
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    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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