Is There a Doctor in the House? Medical Worker Absence in India
The authors present data from a nationally representative all-India survey which enumerators physically verify the attendance of providers during unannounced visits, and found that nearly 40% of...
View ArticleAre You Moonlighting? Using an Item Count Technique to Measure the Prevalence...
This presentation on moonlighting in the health sector in Benin presents the results of a study which measured the extent of dual job practice in the health sector. [adapted from author]
View ArticleStruggling and Coping to Serve: The Zambian Health Workforce as Depicted in...
This paper reports the findings of the Zambian study pertaining to human resources for health, including issues with high staff vacancies, high rates of absenteeism and tardiness, impact on patients...
View ArticleHolding Health Workers Accountable: Governance Approaches to Reducing...
This technical brief looks at the cost of absenteeism, examines governance issues, describes the various stakeholders, and offers a number of recommendations for strengthening governance to reduce...
View ArticleWhere Have They Gone? Using ICT to Address Health Worker Absenteeism in India
This 8 minute video highlights one solution to the problem of doctor absenteeism being deployed in the Karnataka region in southern India. When patients arrive at a primary health clinic and the doctor...
View ArticleImproving Service Delivery through Measuring Rate of Absenteeism in 30 Health...
The objective of the study defined in this report was to evolve a community-based model of monitoring absenteeism in public health centres that can induce demand accountability of service providers,...
View ArticleWhere Have They Gone? A Study on the Absenteeism of Doctors and Support Staff...
This study focused on the causes of absenteeism among doctors and paramedical staff in primary health care centres in Karnataka and loss of resources due to absenteeism and related issues, with a view...
View ArticleAbsenteeism amongst Health Workers: Developing a Typology to Support Empiric...
The authors aimed to review the literature on absenteeism from a health system manager’s perspective to inform needed work on this topic and to develop a typology of definitions that might be useful to...
View ArticleAssessing Health Workers' Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria: A Mixed...
This study examined the coping mechanisms of health workers in the public health sector of Nasarawa and Ondo states in Nigeria to supplement their salaries and benefits; it also estimated the...
View ArticleNegotiating Markets for Health: An Exploration of Physicians' Engagement in...
This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local determinants on the...
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