Documents some contributions made from 2005 to 2008 in the area of health worker retention, including country-level experiences, emerging lessons from practical schemes and key reflections about retention initiatives.
Provides results from a participatory study on health workers' needs for HIV care and makes policy recommendations based on health workers' self-reported information.
Defines motivation; discusses relationships between motivation, job satisfaction and retention; reviews evidence and considers what works in developing countries.
Guides readers through the problem of low retention, the causes of turnover, actions to address turnover, managing migration and approaches to retention.
