Title |
"Workhood"-a useful concept for the analysis of health workers' resources? an evaluation from Tanzania
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, March 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-55 |
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Authors |
Karin Gross, Constanze Pfeiffer, Brigit Obrist |
Abstract |
International debates on improving health system performance and quality of care are strongly coined by systems thinking. There is a surprising lack of attention to the human (worker) elements. Although the central role of health workers within the health system has increasingly been acknowledged, there are hardly studies that analyze performance and quality of care from an individual perspective. Drawing on livelihood studies in health and sociological theory of capitals, this study develops and evaluates the new concept of workhood. As an analytical device the concept aims at understanding health workers' capacities to access resources (human, financial, physical, social, cultural and symbolic capital) and transfer them to the community from an individual perspective. |
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Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
Unknown | 1 | 25% |
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Peru | 1 | <1% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
Other | 16 | 15% |
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