Policy talk: Incentives for rural service among nurses in Ghana

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 669-676

  Kwansah, Janet ^a   Dzodzomenyo, Mawuli ^b   Mutumba, Massy ^c   Asabir, Kwesi ^a   Koomson, Elizabeth ^c   Gyakobo, Mawuli ^b   Agyei Baffour, Peter ^d   Kruk, Margaret E ^e   Snow, Rachel C ^c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^e Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ghana; Human resources for health; nurses; rural recruitment; workforce distribution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB SATISFACTION; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; CAREER CHOICE; CAREER MOBILITY; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84870921028     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czs016     Document Type: Article

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