Incentives

User Guide with Case Studies: How to Conduct a Discrete Choice Experiment for Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention in Remote and Rural Areas

Understanding why health workers want or don’t want to take posts and remain in remote and rural areas is a prerequisite to formulating appropriate policy responses to the shortage of health workers in these areas. Building on the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas through Improved Retention, this user guide proposes an innovative methodology, the discrete choice experiment (DCE), to measure the strength of health workers’ preferences and trade-offs related to different job characteristics that can influence their decision to take up rural postings. The user guide offers step-by-step advice on the application of DCE to identify policy interventions appropriate to a particular country context. The guide is the product of close collaboration among three agencies—the World Bank, the WHO, and USAID/CapacityPlus—and represents their shared commitment to supporting policy-relevant research on critical topics related to human resources for health.

Retención

¿Qué motivará a los trabajadores de salud a permanecer en las zonas rurales?

La rétention du personnel

Comment motiver les prestataires de soins pour qu’ils restent dans les zones rurales ?

Retención del personal de salud: metodología rápida para desarrollar paquetes de incentivos basados en la evidencia

Spanish translation of an overview of the Rapid Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) Tool, intended to allow human resources managers to determine health workers’ motivational preferences.

Retention

What will motivate health workers to stay in rural areas? This brief presents an overview of the issue of retention along with suggested actions, key considerations, and resources. Also available in French and Spanish.

Retaining Health Workers: A Toolkit to Develop Evidence-Based Incentive Packages

An overview of the Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit: Designing Evidence-Based Incentives for Health Workers, intended to allow human resources managers to determine health workers’ motivational preferences.

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