BACKGROUND Kenya has bold plans for scaling up priority interventions nationwide, but faces major human resource challenges, with a lack of skilled workers especially in the most disadvantaged rural areas. METHODS We investigated reasons for poor recruitment and retention in rural areas and potential policy interventions through quantitative and qualitative data collection with nursing traine...

The purpose of this study was to 1) describe a strategic plan for recruitment and retention used in conducting eye health education research with African-Americans living in urban and rural areas of Alabama and 2) characterize recruitment and retention patterns for this community-based project. We evaluated an eye health education program tailored specifically to older African Americans. InCHAR...

Despite the rise in grade retention in poor areas in rural China recently, little work has been done to understand the impact of grade retention on the educational performance of students in these areas in rural China. This paper seeks to redress this shortcoming and examines the effect of grade retention on educational performance on 1649 students in 36 elementary schools in Shaanxi province.W...

The World Health Organization 2010 Global Policy Recommendations: ‘Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas through Improved Retention’ is a notable milestone in rural health policy. This report, with preface by WHO Director General Dr. Margaret Chan, recognizes at the very highest level that the half of the world’s population that lives in rural and remote areas faces enor...

INTRODUCTION Decentralized nursing education (DNE) was established at Tromsø University College in 1990 and has since become a part of the bachelor programme in nursing at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The objective of the study was to investigate whether and to what degree the first DNE programme established in Norway has contributed to recruitment and retention of registered nurses (RN...

INTRODUCTION The shortage and maldistribution of health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa is a major concern for rural health facilities. Rural areas have 63% of sub-Saharan Africa population but only 37% of its doctors. Although attrition of health care workers is implicated in the human resources for health crisis in the rural settings, few studies report attrition rates and risk factors for...

INTRODUCTION Deployment and retention of a sufficient number of skilled and motivated human resources for health (HRH) at the right place and at the right time are critical to ensure people's right to access a universal quality of health care. Vision Tokyo 2010 Network, an international network of HRH managers at the ministry of health (MoH) level in nine Francophone African countries, identifi...

Background Shortages of health workers in rural areas are a global problem. The problem is more acute in poorer countries where the distribution of skilled, supported and motivated health workers is affected by internal and international migration. In Nepal, most women deliver at home, and the government has prioritized training and recruitment of nurses in rural areas to meet development goals...

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...

The retention of physicians in rural areas is a problem in developing nations. A community-oriented approach in the medical curriculum proved successful for the Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine (ADZU-SOM). Based on the 2010 alumni records of ADZU-SOM, 95% of its graduates have stayed in the country to serve, with 51% serving in rural areas. After deploying physicians to communi...