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  • Diversity in Career Preferences of Future Health Workers in Rwanda

    Where, Why, and for How Much?

    by Tomas Lievens, Pieter Serneels, J. Damascene Butera, Agnes Soucat ...
    Series Book 189 - Africa Human Development Series
    Relying on unique survey data, this paper analyzes the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preferences, their willingness to work in rural areas, their likelihood to migrate abroad, and their readiness to work in a high HIV prevalence environment. The findings show that health workers are not as uniform as is often thought, and can have very different ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market

    by William Jack, Joost De Laat, Kara Hanson, Agnes Soucat ...
    Series Book 192 - Africa Human Development Series
    By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the country disproportionately live and work in the capital, Addis Ababa. This paper uses detailed data gathered from nearly 1,000 health workers to examine the incentives and constraints that health workers face when choosing where to work, the likely ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    A Labor Market Perspective on What Works, What Does Not, and Why

    by Christophe Lemiere, Christopher Herbst, Negda Jahanshahi, Ellen Smith, Agnes Soucat ...
    Series Book 209 - Africa Human Development Series
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date, however, most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia: An Outcome of Health Worker Entry Exit and Performance within the National Health Labor Market

    by Herbst,Christopher; Vledder,Monique; Campbell,Karen; Sjöblom,Mirja; Soucat,Agnes ...
    'The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.Despite reporting some health gains since the 1990s health outcomes remain poor in Zambia and it will be very challenging to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Diversity In Career Preferences Of Future Health Workers In Rwanda: Where, Why, And For How Much?

    by Lievens Tomas; Serneels Pieter; Butera Jean Damascene; Soucat Agnes ...
    Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preference, their willingness ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Diversity In Career Preferences Of Future Health Workers In Rwanda: Where, Why, And For How Much?

    by Lievens Tomas; Serneels Pieter; Butera Jean Damascene; Soucat Agnes ...
    Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preference, their willingness ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Health Taxes

    Policy and Practice

    by Jeremy A Lauer, Franco Sassi, Agnès Soucat, Angeli Vigo ...
    Virtually all fiscal measures influence people's health, through their impacts on behaviour, consumption, income and wealth. A narrow subset of fiscal measures, however, can be more directly aimed at improving health by targeting behaviours and risks that are known to be strongly associated with health outcomes. The purpose of this book is to discuss the subject of these measures, which we define ... Read more

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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Labor Market Prospective on What Works What Does Not and Why

    by Lemiere Christophe; Herbst Christopher; Jahanshahi Negda; Smith Ellen; Souca Agnest ...
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date however most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A New Era in U.S. Health Care

    Critical Next Steps Under the Affordable Care Act

    by Stephen Davidson ...
    A New Era in U.S. Health Care demystifies the Affordable Care Act for unfamiliar readers, setting an agenda for lawmakers and the health industry alike. It focuses on four key issues that will determine the success of this 2010 legislation: the use of state-run Medicaid programs to expand access to insurance; the implementation process; the creation of health insurance exchanges; and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness: Evaluative Lessons from World Bank Group Experience

    by World Bank ...
    The report assesses the World Bank Group?s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008 the period covered by this evaluation the World Bank Group (WBG) provided 23.7 billion in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Changing The Trajectory : Education And Training For Youth In Democratic Republic Of Congo

    by Bashir Sajitha ...
    This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and considers alternative scenarios for developing the post-primary sector. Each ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bending the Rules

    Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

    by Rachel Augustine Potter ...
    Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreographed actions of Congress and the president account for only a small portion of the laws created in the United States. By some estimates, more than ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus