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Compensation and incentives

• Understanding the factors influencing health-worker employment decisions in South Africa
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:15 (23 April 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Motivation and incentives of rural maternal and neonatal health care providers: a comparison of qualitative findings from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania
  Article published in the BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:149 (25 April 2013)
  1 April 2013
• An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
  Article published in the Implementation Science 2013, 8:48 (8 May 2013)
  1 April 2013
• Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:11 (28 February 2013)
  1 March 2013
• Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries
  Article published in Human Resources for Health 2013, 11:13 (22 March 2013)
  1 March 2013
• Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit: Designing Evidence-Based Incentives for Health Workers
  Health worker retention toolkit
  1 January 2013
• Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis
  CapacityPlus Technical Brief 1, November 2011
  17 November 2011
• Aligning and Clarifying Health Worker Tasks to Improve Maternal Care in Niger
  The Tahoua Region Human Resources Quality Improvement Collaborative
  1 September 2011
• Global Experience of Community Health Workers for Delivery of Health Related Millennium Development Goals: A Systematic Review, Country Case Studies, and Recommendations for Integration into National Health Systems
  Alliance document
  14 October 2010
• Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Compulsory service programmes for recruiting health workers in remote and rural areas: do they work?
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2010
• Health workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2010
• Job satisfaction and its modeling among township health center employees: a quantitative study in poor rural China
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2010
• Systematic review: Effects, design choices, and context of pay-for-performance in health care
  Case study
  1 January 2010
• Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• Factors affecting recruitment and retention of community health workers in a newborn care intervention in Bangladesh
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2010
• Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas
  Members document
  1 January 2010
• What countries can do now: twenty-nine actions to scale-up and improve the health workforce
  Guidelines
  1 January 2009
• Searching for common ground on incentive packages for community workers and volunteers in Zambia
  National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, Zambia, Report
  1 January 2009
• Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
  World Health Organization, background paper
  1 January 2009
• A cost-effectiveness study of caesarean-section deliveries by clinical officers, general practitioners and obstetricians in Burkina Faso
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Worker Retention in Human Resources for Health: Catalyzing and Tracking Change
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Governance in Health Care Delivery: Raising Performance
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?
  WHO Bulletin
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health. Country Profile, Malawi
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Profil en Ressources Humaines en Santé République Islamique de Mauritanie
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Sudan
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, The Gambia
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Human Resources for Health Country Profile, Uganda
  Members document
  1 January 2009
• Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas: seven management functions.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practicing in rural and other underserved areas.
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Work satisfaction of professional nurses in South Africa: a comparative analysis of the public and private sectors
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• 'Paying for performance' in Rwanda: does it pay off?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Performance-based payment: some reflections on the discourse, evidence and unanswered questions
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2009
• Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• From staff-mix to skill-mix and beyond: towards a systemic approach to health workforce management
  Case study
  1 January 2009
• Guiding principles for national health workforce strategies
  Guidelines
  29 June 2008
• Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review
  Article
  1 January 2008
• Financing and economic aspects of health workforce scale-up and improvement: framework paper
  Technical brief
  1 January 2008
• Ghana: implementing a national human resources for health plan
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Malawi's Emergency Human Resources Programme
  Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization, Case study
  1 January 2008
• Guidelines: incentives for health professionals
  Guidelines
  1 January 2008
• Impact des mesures d’incitation financière accordées aux médecins, pharmaciens et chirurgiens dentistes
  Ministère de la Santé Publique, Republique du Niger, Report
  1 January 2008
• Employment preferences of public sector nurses in Malawi: results from a discrete choice experiment.
  Case study
  1 January 2008
• Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2008
• Effectiveness of training supervisors to improve reproductive health quality of care: a cluster-randomized trial in Kenya
  Case study
  1 January 2008
• Examining the relationship between patient orientation and job satisfaction in health care: evidence from the nursing profession.
  Article
  1 January 2007
• Health Worker Migration Policy Advisory Council meeting November 2007
  Webcast
  1 January 2007
• A review of non-financial incentives for health worker retention in east and southern Africa
  Regional Network for Equity in health in eastern and southern Africa (EQUINET), East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC), University of Limpopo, South Africa, Report
  1 January 2007
• Strategic management of the health workforce in developing countries: what have we learned?
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2007
• Health worker motivation in Africa: the role of non-financial incentives and human resource management tools
  Article
  1 January 2006
• Annual review of HRH situation in Asia-Pacific region 2006-2007
  Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health, Health Human Resources Development Center, Ministry of Health, P.R. China, report
  1 January 2006
• The health workforce in Africa: challenges and prospects
  The Africa Working Group of the Joint Learning initiative on Human Resources for Health and Development, report
  1 January 2006
• The Global Nursing Shortage: Priority Areas for Intervention
  International Council of Nurses, advocacy document
  1 January 2006
• Global Health Workforce Alliance: sharing experiences
  Report
  1 January 2006
• Making healthcare more accountable
  Article
  1 January 2004
• Dual practice in the health sector: review of the evidence
  Peer reviewed article
  1 January 2004
• International nurse mobility. Trends and policy implications
  International Council of Nurses, World Health Organization, Royal College of Nursing, report
  1 January 2003
• What Do Doctors Want? Developing Incentives for Doctors to Serve in Indonesia's Rural and Remote Areas
  Members document
  1 January 1998