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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:51:10 +0000

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Comment on Saturday Reading for 20 Feb 2010 by Jennifer Moïsi

Jennifer Moïsi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:14:45 +0000

It’s fair to say that emigration is only one of a constellation of factors that undermine the effectiveness of the public health workforce – and may be a minor factor at that. It’s also true that simple preventive and curative care measures implemented by community health workers with basic training have been very effective at reducing child mortality in many poor countries. But I do think that after picking these low-hanging fruit we will need trained doctors and functioning hospitals everywhere – to reduce maternal mortality, manage patients with drug-resistant TB, treat victims of road-traffic accidents, etc. Africa is going through rapid epidemiological transition and we need to build health systems that will address the health problems of the future, not only the “simple” childhood diseases of the present.

Comment on Saturday Reading for 20 Feb 2010 by Roving Bandit

Roving Bandit — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:31:33 +0000

Michael Clemens argues that the health worker issue is a fallacy. Trained doctors don’t want to work in remote villages anyway, if they can’t leave the country they’ll just sit in the Ministry of Health in the capital and maybe do some private work on the side. The constraint to developing country health systems is not trained doctors. Often the solutions are very simple public health measures. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/22/think_again_brain_drain?page=full