Association between Japanese community health workers' willingness to continue service and two categories of motives: Altruistic and self-oriented.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As population aging progresses, volunteers in health field are expected to play a key role in health promotion and disease prevention, which may improve community residents' health and well-being and at the same time help slow the growth of healthcare cost. The objective of this study is to examine the effects of self-oriented motives and altruistic motives as explanatory factors for Japanese Community Health Workers (CHWs)' desire to continue their service. Unraveling the relative effects of these two types of motivation on CHW retention may lead to policy and practical implications for recruiting, training, and supporting CHWs in Japan. Haddad (2007) observed that citizens in Japan generally have a sense of governmental and individual responsibility for dealing with so

SUBMITTER: Taguchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494310 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature