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of North-South migration of medical doctors can be easily promoted not just for the benefits of
Southern countries but also of the more developed economies.
Part I is devoted to introducing the issue at hand with its different dimensions. It aims at showing
how shortages in medical doctors are faced in MENA, ECE and EU.
The sub-part I.1focuses on the trends related to the shortcomings of medical doctors and to the
continuous needs for the staffing of both public and private hospitals and health care facilities. It
also provides the rationale for this study and the outlines retained and developed in this research.
The sub-part I.2 is providing a descriptive study of the trends that characterize stocks and flows
of medical doctors in MENA and ECE. It also introduces the major elements related to medical
education and labor markets and incentives in these countries. The mobility of medical doctors
from these countries is also addressed. The specifics of Europe with a focus on the EU are then
discussed in I.3, through a descriptive approach where stocks and flows of medical doctors are
analyzed. Incentives as well as constraints for immigration are then raised to show that the EU
with its expansion provides room for new foreign doctors. This sub-part shows also that
migration possibilities are also offered, with the development of medical education and new
health systems in EU, ECE and MENA economies.
Part II introduces an analytical framework where the determinants of migration are assessed and
tested using available data from ECE and MENA economies (II.1). This sub-part is also testing
the validity of the new economics theoretical model of medical doctors’decisions on MENA and
ECE countries. The factors underlying emigration are then revealed to include economic, market
and behavioral parameters. These factors are definitely retained as motivating the emigration of
medical doctors from ECE and MENA. A special focus is then placed on Morocco as one country
of the MENA region (II.2). This sub-part has looked at the major trends and prospects
characterizing the market supply and demand of medical doctors with focus on the prospects
taking place in this economy. In such context a survey is conducted and its outcomes reported in
II.3. Major consistencies are found between the findings from the application of the new
economics theoretical model of migration of medical doctors besides the testing of the validity
and expectations of the new collaborative North-South framework.
Part III focusing on further motivating the collaborative North-South framework is then
introduced. The global health system as it has been developing during the last years is then
introduced in III.1 to understand how this trend can be related to past and on-going mobility of
medical doctors. This is followed by III.2 where the possibilities for a cooperative framework are
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