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| Title |
Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, April 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-92 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nils Gunnar Songstad, Karen Marie Moland, Deodatus Amadeus Massay, Astrid Blystad |
| Abstract |
Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues related to the distribution of health workers across various types of health facilities. This article discusses health workers' preferences for workplace and their perceptions and experiences of the differences in working conditions in the public health sector versus the church-run health facilities in Tanzania. The broader aim is to generate knowledge that can add to debates on health sector management in low-income contexts. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 129 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Slovenia | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 120 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 15% |
| Researcher | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 26 | 20% |
| Unknown | 19 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 42 | 33% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 16% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 14 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 7% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 23 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 10 December 2012.
All research outputs
#7,753,480
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,814
of 7,847 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#53,731
of 162,847 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#25
of 64 outputs
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