Changing health care provider performance through measurement

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue , 2017, Pages 54-65

  Leonard, Kenneth L ^a   Masatu, Melkiory C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Altruism; Low income countries; Pro social motivation; Quality of care; Results based financing; Supportive supervision; The Hawthorne effect

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER;

ALTRUISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPECTATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MOTIVATION; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MANPOWER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

FEEDBACK; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; WORK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85016452788     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.041     Document Type: Article

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