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| Title |
District health managers’ perceptions of supervision in Malawi and Tanzania
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-11-43 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Susan Bradley, Francis Kamwendo, Honorati Masanja, Helen de Pinho, Rachel Waxman, Camille Boostrom, Eilish McAuliffe |
| Abstract |
Mid-level cadres are being used to address human resource shortages in many African contexts, but insufficient and ineffective human resource management is compromising their performance. Supervision plays a key role in performance and motivation, but is frequently characterised by periodic inspection and control, rather than support and feedback to improve performance. This paper explores the perceptions of district health management teams in Tanzania and Malawi on their role as supervisors and on the challenges to effective supervision at the district level. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 22% |
| South Africa | 1 | 11% |
| Rwanda | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 5 | 56% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 78% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 246 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 3 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Uganda | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Malawi | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 232 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 54 | 22% |
| Researcher | 35 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 16 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 46 | 19% |
| Unknown | 51 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 72 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 35 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 33 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 31 | 13% |
| Unknown | 59 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2022.
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#4,836,328
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#564
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#39,815
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#11
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Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,261 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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