Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania

Globalization and Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Songstad, Nils G ^a   Lindkvist, Ida ^b   Moland, Karen M ^a   Chimhutu, Victor ^a   Blystad, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Human resources; Motivation; Performance appraisal; Results based payment; Rural health services; Tanzania; Working conditions

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HUMAN RESOURCE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; WAGE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIELD WORK; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NURSING STAFF; OPEN PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND APPRAISAL SYSTEM; PAYMENT FOR PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SALARY; TANZANIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REIMBURSEMENT;

TANZANIA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTIVATION; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84865844783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-8-33     Document Type: Article

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