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Resource Spotlight: Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals
for Health Professionals
The growing gap between the supply of health care professionals and the demand for their services are recognized as a key issue for health and development worldwide. Policy-makers, planners and managers continue to seek effective means to recruit and retain staff. One way to achieve this is to develop and implement effective incentive schemes.
This paper provides an overview of the use of incentives for health care professionals. It describes some of the different approaches taken and presents characteristics shared by effective incentive schemes. The paper also suggests some approaches to their development and implementation. It is available in English, French and Spanish. [Adapted from author]
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