Open AccessStrategies for attraction and retention of health workers in remote and difficult-to-access areas of Chhattisgarh, India: Do they work?
Author(s) -
Suchitra Lisam,
Sulakshandi,
Kanica Kanungo,
Prem Verma,
Jay Prakash Mishra,
Dilip Singh Mairembam
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/0019-557x.164656
Subject(s) - incentive , government (linguistics) , thematic analysis , payment , local government , medicine , business , health facility , work (physics) , qualitative research , nursing , environmental health , finance , population , health services , political science , public administration , mechanical engineering , social science , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , engineering , economics , microeconomics
To address the acute shortages of health workers in underserved, remote, and difficult-to-access areas, the Government of Chhattisgarh and the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) launched the Chhattisgarh Rural Medical Corps (CRMC) in 2009. CRMC has enabled provisions such as financial incentives, residential accommodation, life insurance, and extra marks during admission at the postgraduate (PG) level to eligible doctors for the attraction and retention of health workers, i.e., doctors, staff nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs), and rural medical assistants (RMAs) in underserved areas.