Where there is no policy: governing the posting and transfer of primary health care workers in Nigeria

International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 492-508

  Abimbola, Seye ^a,b,c   Olanipekun, Titilope ^d   Schaaf, Marta ^e   Negin, Joel ^a   Jan, Stephen ^a,c   Martiniuk, Alexandra L C ^a,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL PRIMARY HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Nigeria)

^c GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

community health committees; governance; human resources for health; Nigeria; primary health care

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN RESOURCE; POLICY APPROACH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MANAGER; NIGERIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUNISHMENT; WORKER; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BENUE; KADUNA [NIGERIA]; LAGOS [NIGERIA]; NASARAWA; NIGERIA;

HUMANS; NIGERIA; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84964952435     PISSN: 07496753     EISSN: 10991751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hpm.2356     Document Type: Article

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