HRH Global Resource Center - Coping Strategies

Negotiating Markets for Health: An Exploration of Physicians' Engagement in Dual Practice in Three African Capital Cities

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:21:58 +0000

This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local determinants on the practice. [from abstract]

Assessing Health Workers' Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria: A Mixed Methods Study

Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:16:25 +0000

This study examined the coping mechanisms of health workers in the public health sector of Nasarawa and Ondo states in Nigeria to supplement their salaries and benefits; it also estimated the proportionate value of the revenues from those coping mechanisms in relation to the health workers’ official incomes. [from abstract]

Absenteeism amongst Health Workers: Developing a Typology to Support Empiric Work in Low-Income Countries and Characterizing Reported Associations

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:36:42 +0000

The authors aimed to review the literature on absenteeism from a health system manager’s perspective to inform needed work on this topic and to develop a typology of definitions that might be useful to classify different forms of absenteeism and identify factors associated with absenteeism. [adapted from abstract]

Where Have They Gone? A Study on the Absenteeism of Doctors and Support Staff in Primary Health Care Centres

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:16:37 +0000

This study focused on the causes of absenteeism among doctors and paramedical staff in primary health care centres in Karnataka and loss of resources due to absenteeism and related issues, with a view to suggest ways and means of reducing absenteeism and maximising impact on the utilisation of public resources. [from summary]

Improving Service Delivery through Measuring Rate of Absenteeism in 30 Health Centres in Tonk District of Rajasthan, India

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:54:35 +0000

The objective of the study defined in this report was to evolve a community-based model of monitoring absenteeism in public health centres that can induce demand accountability of service providers, along with measuring the rate of their absenteeism and the satisfaction of the beneficiaries, and to do evidence-based advocacy for adopting the model and improving the service delivery. [from abstract]

Where Have They Gone? Using ICT to Address Health Worker Absenteeism in India

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:43:53 +0000

This 8 minute video highlights one solution to the problem of doctor absenteeism being deployed in the Karnataka region in southern India. When patients arrive at a primary health clinic and the doctor is absent, they can use their phones to text a central location which will record this data to allow the government to track and citizens to see which clinics are chronically understaffed. [from publisher]

Holding Health Workers Accountable: Governance Approaches to Reducing Absenteeism

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:11:20 +0000

This technical brief looks at the cost of absenteeism, examines governance issues, describes the various stakeholders, and offers a number of recommendations for strengthening governance to reduce absenteeism. [from publisher]

Struggling and Coping to Serve: The Zambian Health Workforce as Depicted in the Public Expenditure Tracking and Quality of Service Delivery Survey

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:14:02 +0000

This paper reports the findings of the Zambian study pertaining to human resources for health, including issues with high staff vacancies, high rates of absenteeism and tardiness, impact on patients and the coping mechanisms health workers are employing to augment their incomes. [adapted from summary]

Are You Moonlighting? Using an Item Count Technique to Measure the Prevalence of Dual Job Practice in the Health Sector: A Case Study from Benin

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:11:55 +0000

This presentation on moonlighting in the health sector in Benin presents the results of a study which measured the extent of dual job practice in the health sector. [adapted from author]

Is There a Doctor in the House? Medical Worker Absence in India

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:33:49 +0000

The authors present data from a nationally representative all-India survey which enumerators physically verify the attendance of providers during unannounced visits, and found that nearly 40% of doctors and medical service providers are absent from work on a typical day. [from abstract]