Incentives for lay health workers to improve recruitment, retention in service and performance

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Daniels, Karen ^a   Odendaal, Willem A ^a   Nkonki, Lungiswa ^a,b   Hongoro, Charles ^a,c   Colvin, Christopher J ^d   Lewin, Simon ^a,e  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VOLUNTARY WORKER; WORKER RETENTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84940511957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011201     Document Type: Article

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