Human resource management interventions to improve health workers' performance in low and middle income countries: a realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving health workers' performance is vital for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In the literature on human resource management (HRM) interventions to improve health workers' performance in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), hardly any attention has been paid to the question how HRM interventions might bring about outcomes and in which contexts. Such information is, however, critical to assess the transferability of results. Our aim was to explore if realist review of published primary research provides better insight into the functioning of HRM interventions in LMIC.

Methodology

A realist review not only asks whether an intervention has shown to be effective, but also through which mechanisms an intervention produces outcomes and which contextu

SUBMITTER: Dieleman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2672945 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature