Motivation of Community Health Workers in Diagnosing, Treating, and Referring Sick Young Children in a Multicountry Study | Zendy

Armande Sanou | Zendy; Ayodele Samuel Jegede | Zendy; Jesca NsungwaSabiiti | Zendy; Mohamadou Siribié | Zendy; IkeOluwapo O. Ajayi | Zendy; Asaf Turinde | Zendy; Frederick O. Oshiname | Zendy; Luc Sermé | Zendy; Vanessa Kabarungi | Zendy; Catherine O. Falade | Zendy; Josephine Kyaligonza | Zendy; Chinenye Afonne | Zendy; Andrew Balyeku | Zendy; Joëlle Castellani | Zendy; Melba Gomes | Zendy

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Motivation of Community Health Workers in Diagnosing, Treating, and Referring Sick Young Children in a Multicountry Study

Author(s) -

Armande Sanou,

Ayodele Samuel Jegede,

Jesca NsungwaSabiiti,

Mohamadou Siribié,

IkeOluwapo O. Ajayi,

Asaf Turinde,

Frederick O. Oshiname,

Luc Sermé,

Vanessa Kabarungi,

Catherine O. Falade,

Josephine Kyaligonza,

Chinenye Afonne,

Andrew Balyeku,

Joëlle Castellani,

Melba Gomes

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciw625

Subject(s) - remuneration , medicine , incentive , focus group , nursing , community mobilization , service delivery framework , health facility , job satisfaction , qualitative research , community health , community health workers , family medicine , service (business) , socioeconomics , environmental health , population , public health , psychology , health services , business , economic growth , marketing , social psychology , social science , finance , sociology , economics , microeconomics

Community health workers (CHWs) are an important element of care provision for a wide range of conditions, but their turnover rate is high. Many studies have been conducted on health workers' motivation, focusing on formal sector staff but not CHWs. Although CHWs are easy to recruit, motivating and retaining them for service delivery is difficult. This article investigates factors influencing CHW motivation and retention in health service delivery.

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