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Title The shortage of medical workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and substitution policy | ||
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http://bieson.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/volltexte/2009/1419/ | ||
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Date 2008 | ||
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Author(s) Bourgain, Arnaud; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng | ||
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Abstract 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. | ||
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Subject(s) Medical shortage; Healthcare policy; Substitution policy; Economics | ||
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Language eng | ||
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Publisher Universität Bielefeld; Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung (IMW) | ||
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Type of publication Research-Paper | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Source IMW working papers, ISSN 0931-6558 ; 407 // URL: http://www.imw.uni-bielefeld.de/papers/files/imw-wp-407.pdf | ||
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Rights Metadata supplied by: Universität Bielefeld, GERMANY | ||
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Identifier urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-14192 | ||
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Repository Bielefeld - University of Bielefeld 
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