"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS health workers: Educating and retaining the workforce to provide antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 544-551

  Bärnighausen, Till ^a   Bloom, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral treatment (ART); Cost benefit analysis; Health workers; HIV; Human resources; Markov model; Microsimulation; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN RESOURCE; MIGRATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 58549106762     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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