What’s the Best Way to Retain a Health Worker? Just Ask Her!

Carol Bales — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:52:18 +0000

This post was originally published on Disruptive Women in Health Care.

The world currently has a shortage of some 4 million health workers. This shortage is amplified by a complete mismatch between where health workers are stationed and where they are most needed. The healthier and wealthier a community is, the more health workers it has. The poorer and sicker a community, the fewer health workers it has. The situation is worsening as every year hundreds of thousands of health workers move from poor, rural, and underserved communities to wealthier, metropolitan communities with a surfeit of health workers. This occurs both within countries (a nurse moving from a rural area to the capital city) and between countries (a doctor moving from a developing country to a wealthy country).

Author's name:

Kate Tulenko

Publication Date:

May 2012

Discrete Choice Experiment

What’s the Best Way to Retain a Health Worker? Just Ask Her!