"Once the government employs you, it forgets you": Health workers' and managers' perspectives on factors influencing working conditions for provision of maternal health care services in a rural district of Tanzania

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mkoka, Dickson Ally ^a   Mahiti, Gladys Reuben ^a   Kiwara, Angwara ^a   Mwangu, Mughwira ^a   Goicolea, Isabel ^b   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Governance of human resource for health; Health worker; Maternal health services; Rural health facilities; Tanzania; Working conditions

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC SECTOR; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TRUST;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC SECTOR; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TRUST;

EID: 84942199297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-015-0076-5     Document Type: Article

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