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What makes staff consider leaving the health service in Malawi?

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, March 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
What makes staff consider leaving the health service in Malawi?
Published in
Human Resources for Health, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1478-4491-12-17
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Authors

Wanangwa Chimwaza, Effie Chipeta, Andrew Ngwira, Francis Kamwendo, Frank Taulo, Susan Bradley, Eilish McAuliffe

Abstract

Malawi faces a severe shortage of health workers, a factor that has contributed greatly to high maternal mortality in the country. Most clinical care is performed by mid-level providers (MLPs). While utilization of these cadres in providing health care is a solution to the current shortages, demotivating factors within the Malawian health system are pushing them into private, non-governmental, and other non-health related positions. This study aims to highlight these demotivating factors by exploring the critical aspects that influence MLPs' intention to leave their jobs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Tanzania, United Republic of 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 210 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 55 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 11%
Student > Bachelor 23 11%
Researcher 18 8%
Other 11 5%
Other 39 18%
Unknown 47 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 48 22%
Social Sciences 29 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 8%
Engineering 6 3%
Other 34 16%
Unknown 58 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 26 March 2018.
All research outputs
#4,535,680
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#527
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,192
of 236,818 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#8
of 18 outputs
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