Creating Incentives to Work in Ghana:Results from a Qualitative Health Worker Study

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Lievens, Tomas, Serneels, Pieter, Garbarino, Sabine, Quartey, Peter, Appiah, Ebeneezer, Herbst, Christopher H., Lemiere, Christophe, Soucat, Agnes, Rose, Laura and Saleh, Karima (2011) Creating Incentives to Work in Ghana:Results from a Qualitative Health Worker Study.

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Abstract

The Ministry of Health, Ghana, is engaged in developing a new Human Resources for Health (HRH) Strategy (2001–15); one that tries to draw on some of the evidence pertaining to the dynamics of the health labor market. This study is one of several efforts by the World Bank to support the Ministry of Health in its endeavor to develop a new evidencebased HRH strategy. Using qualitative research (focus group discussions), this study carries out a microeconomic labor analysis of health worker1 career choice and of job behavior. The study shows how common problems related to distribution or performance of HRH are driven by the behavior of health workers themselves and are determined largely by select monetary and nonmonetary compensation. Such findings generate insights that provide a starting point for further analysis and a basis for the development of effective human resources for health policies.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Experimental Economics (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
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Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2016 17:01
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2026 14:32
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56154
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