Sources, determinants and utilization of health workers' revenues: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1010-1019

  Bertone, Maria Paola ^a,b   Lagarde, Mylene ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ReBUILD Research Consortium   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resources; Incentives; Income hiding; Income use strategies; Mental accounting; Sierra Leone

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; INVESTMENT; NARRATIVE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; REMUNERATION; SIERRA LEONE; THINKING; ECONOMICS; MOTIVATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SIERRA LEONE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84994779498     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czw031     Document Type: Article

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