Assessing health workers' revenues and coping strategies in Nigeria - A mixed-methods study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Akwataghibe, Ngozi ^a,e   Samaranayake, Dulani ^b   Lemiere, Christophe ^c   Dieleman, Marjolein ^d  

^a ENAULD Health Research and Services   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^c World Bank Africa region   (South Africa)

^d ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e not available   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coping mechanisms; Health workers; Mixed methods; Randomized response technique; Salaries

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; NIGER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NIGER; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 84884935911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-387     Document Type: Article

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