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  • Diversity in Career Preferences of Future Health Workers in Rwanda

    Where, Why, and for How Much?

    Series Book 189 - Africa Human Development Series
    Relying on unique survey data, this paper analyzes the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preferences, their willingness to work in rural areas, their likelihood to migrate abroad, and their readiness to work in a high HIV prevalence environment. The findings show that health workers are not as uniform as is often thought, and can have very different ... Read more

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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    A Labor Market Perspective on What Works, What Does Not, and Why

    Series Book 209 - Africa Human Development Series
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date, however, most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

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  • Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market

    Series Book 192 - Africa Human Development Series
    By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the country disproportionately live and work in the capital, Addis Ababa. This paper uses detailed data gathered from nearly 1,000 health workers to examine the incentives and constraints that health workers face when choosing where to work, the likely ... Read more

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  • The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia: An Outcome of Health Worker Entry Exit and Performance within the National Health Labor Market

    'The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.Despite reporting some health gains since the 1990s health outcomes remain poor in Zambia and it will be very challenging to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals ... Read more

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  • Diversity In Career Preferences Of Future Health Workers In Rwanda: Where, Why, And For How Much?

    Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preference, their willingness ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Diversity In Career Preferences Of Future Health Workers In Rwanda: Where, Why, And For How Much?

    Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preference, their willingness ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Health Taxes

    Policy and Practice

    Virtually all fiscal measures influence people's health, through their impacts on behaviour, consumption, income and wealth. A narrow subset of fiscal measures, however, can be more directly aimed at improving health by targeting behaviours and risks that are known to be strongly associated with health outcomes. The purpose of this book is to discuss the subject of these measures, which we define ... Read more

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