Rural Health Worker Retention Tools

Carol Bales — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:13:56 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

October 2013 (All day)

Provides an overview of CapacityPlus’s tools for attracting and retaining health workers in rural and remote areas.

Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit: Designing Evidence-Based Incentives for Health Workers

Carol Bales — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:37:13 +0000

Author's name:

Wanda Jaskiewicz, Rachel Deussom, Laura Wurts, and George Mgomella

December 2014 (All day)

Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit (English and French)

The Rapid Retention Survey Toolkit is designed to help countries determine what would motivate health workers to accept and remain in rural posts. It builds on the World Health Organization global policy recommendations for rural retention and is based on the discrete choice experiment (DCE), a powerful research method that identifies the trade-offs professionals are willing to make between specific job characteristics and determines their preferences for various incentive packages, including the probability of accepting a post in a rural facility. Employing a simplified version of the DCE methodology, the toolkit guides HR managers through the survey process to quickly assess health students’ and health workers’ motivational preferences to accept a position and continue working in underserved facilities. The results can be used to create evidence-based incentive packages that are appropriate within a country’s health labor market.