Are health workers motivated by income? Job motivation of Cambodian primary health workers implementing performance-based financing

Are health workers motivated by income? Job motivation of Cambodian primary health workers implementing performance-based financing

BACKGROUND Financial incentives are widely used in performance-based financing (PBF) schemes, but their contribution to health workers' incomes and job motivation is poorly understood. Cambodia undertook health sector reform from the middle of 2009 and PBF was employed as a part of the reform process. OBJECTIVE This study examines job motivation for primary health workers (PHWs) under PBF ref...

Promoting Occupational Safety and Health for Cambodian Entertainment Sector Workers.

Cambodia has developed booming textile, garment, tourism, and entertainment service industries since the mid-1990s. The 2007 global financial crisis pushed many garment workers, who lost their jobs, into the entertainment sector. Entertainment workers are typically engaged informally by their employers and are subjected to long working hours, sexual harassment, and violence. Many who sell bever...

Woman workers and job health hazards.

Incentives to change: effects of performance-based financing on health workers in Zambia

BACKGROUND Performance-based financing (PBF) has been implemented in a number of countries with the aim of transforming health systems and improving maternal and child health. This paper examines the effect of PBF on health workers' job satisfaction, motivation, and attrition in Zambia. It uses a randomized intervention/control design to evaluate before-after changes for three groups: intervent...

Community Based Health Workers

This chapter examines the use of various categories of Community Based Health Workers as first line health workers in dealing with important health and social issues, for example with Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. It attempts to answer certain key issues: Are Community Based Health Workers valuable and cost effective? What should be their role? To whom should they be accountable? In what way shoul...