Job Satisfaction

User Guide with Case Studies: How to Conduct a Discrete Choice Experiment for Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention in Remote and Rural Areas

david — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:26:51 +0000

Author's name:

the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and CapacityPlus

February 2013 (All day)

Understanding why health workers want or don’t want to take posts and remain in remote and rural areas is a prerequisite to formulating appropriate policy responses to the shortage of health workers in these areas. Building on the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas through Improved Retention, this user guide proposes an innovative methodology, the discrete choice experiment (DCE), to measure the strength of health workers’ preferences and trade-offs related to different job characteristics that can influence their decision to take up rural postings. The user guide offers step-by-step advice on the application of DCE to identify policy interventions appropriate to a particular country context. The guide is the product of close collaboration among three agencies—the World Bank, the WHO, and USAID/CapacityPlus—and represents their shared commitment to supporting policy-relevant research on critical topics related to human resources for health.

Retención del personal de salud: metodología rápida para desarrollar paquetes de incentivos basados en la evidencia

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:55:27 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

May 2011 (All day)

Rapid DCE Overview (Spanish)

Spanish translation of an overview of the Rapid Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) Tool, intended to allow human resources managers to determine health workers’ motivational preferences.

Retaining Health Workers: A Toolkit to Develop Evidence-Based Incentive Packages

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:53:53 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

January 2013 (All day)

Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit Overview

An overview of the Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit: Designing Evidence-Based Incentives for Health Workers, intended to allow human resources managers to determine health workers’ motivational preferences.

Satisfaction, Motivation, and Intent to Stay among Ugandan Physicians: A Survey from 18 National Hospitals

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:15:18 +0000

Author's name:

Sam Luboga, Amy Hagopian, John Ndiku, Emily Bancroft, Pamela McQuide

December 2010 (All day)

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management published a study conducted by the Capacity Project, the predecessor to CapacityPlus. “Satisfaction, motivation, and intent to stay among Ugandan physicians: a survey from 18 national hospitals” found that nearly half of the doctors were so dissatisfied that they would consider leaving the health sector or the country. The report concludes that policy-makers should consider interventions to remedy the quality of management, availability of equipment and supplies, facility infrastructure, workload, and professional development, which are reported as major sources of dissatisfaction.