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| Title |
Perceptions of health stakeholders on task shifting and motivation of community health workers in different socio demographic contexts in Kenya (nomadic, peri-urban and rural agrarian)
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-s1-s4 |
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| Authors |
Beverly Marion Ochieng, Edith Akunja, Nancy Edwards, Diana Mombo, Leah Marende, Dan CO Kaseje |
| Abstract |
The shortage of health professionals in low income countries is recognized as a crisis. Community health workers are part of a "task-shift" strategy to address this crisis. Task shifting in this paper refers to the delegation of tasks from health professionals to lay, trained volunteers. In Kenya, there is a debate as to whether these volunteers should be compensated, and what motivation strategies would be effective in different socio-demographic contexts, based type of tasks shifted. The purpose of this study was to find out, from stakeholders' perspectives, the type of tasks to be shifted to community health workers and the appropriate strategies to motivate and retain them. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 146 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 141 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 14% |
| Researcher | 15 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 9% |
| Other | 35 | 24% |
| Unknown | 19 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 26 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 23 | 16% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 28 August 2014.
All research outputs
#2,811,811
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#1,226
of 7,618 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,332
of 227,164 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#18
of 128 outputs
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