An Unfair Trade? Mobility of Africa’s Health Professionals

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19 décembre 2017

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Delanyo Dovlo et al., « An Unfair Trade? Mobility of Africa’s Health Professionals », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10760


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Africa has the lowest density of health professionals per population and yet has lost and continues to lose a significant portion of its health-workers to wealthier countries. It has 24% of the global disease burden but only 3% of global health workforce, compared to the Americas with 37% of health-workers and 10% of the disease burden, and Europe with 35% and 10% respectively (WHO 2006). The supply in sub-Saharan African countries is not improving, and these countries have only 7.5% of the g...

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