RURAL AGING HEALTH RESEARCH: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STRATEGIES

Rural versus urban: Tennessee health administrators' strategies on recruitment and retention for allied health professionals.

Due to an increase in the need for allied health professionals, there is a growing interest to assess the allied health workforce and its employment needs. This is especially true in medically underserved rural areas where there is a critical shortage of allied health professionals. A survey was sent to allied health administrators across a variety of allied health disciplines working in Tennes...

Recruitment and retention of older adults in aging research.

Older adults continue to be underrepresented in clinical research despite their burgeoning population in the United States and worldwide. Physicians often propose treatment plans for older adults based on data from studies involving primarily younger, more-functional, healthier participants. Major barriers to recruitment of older adults in aging research relate to their substantial health probl...

Evaluation of recruitment and retention strategies for health workers in rural Zambia

BACKGROUND In response to Zambia's critical human resources for health challenges, a number of strategies have been implemented to recruit and retain health workers in rural and remote areas. Prior to this study, the effectiveness of these strategies had not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to determine the impacts of the various health worker retention strategies on health work...

Recruitment and Retention Challenges and Strategies

Rural routes: recruitment and retention in rural areas for health human resources.

In order to respond to the great needs for healthcare providers in the Quinte area the health human resources (HHR) demonstration project created a number of initiatives. Our group focused on two parts: a nursing internship program and human resources planning across our rural communities. Components of this project included developing useful tools as well as a partnership within our communitie...