How to do (or not to do)… Measuring health worker motivation in surveys in low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: A health system's ability to deliver quality health care depends on the availability of motivated health workers, which are insufficient in many low income settings. Increasing policy and researcher attention is directed towards understanding what drives health worker motivation and how different policy interventions affect motivation, as motivation is key to performance and quality of care outcomes. As a result, there is growing interest among researchers in measuring motivation within health worker surveys. However, there is currently limited guidance on how to conceptualize and approach measurement and how to validate or analyse motivation data collected from health worker surveys, resulting in inconsistent and sometimes poor quality measures. This paper begins by discussing how motivat

SUBMITTER: Borghi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5886192 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature