...Eunice Okyere; Paul Russell Ward; Kissinger Marfoh; Lillian Mwanri Purpose This study seeks to explore health workers' perceptions and experiences on incentives for motivating and retaining them in primary health-care facilities in rural Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Phenomenological...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Implementation Primary care Performance Working conditions Qualitative research Brazil Public policy Incentives Feedback Workers In a complementary way, May and Winter (2009) present...

...Sofie Vengberg; Mio Fredriksson; Bo Burström; Kristina Burström; Ulrika Winblad Purpose Payments to healthcare providers create incentives that can influence provider behaviour. Research on unit-level incentives in primary care is, however, scarce. This paper examines how managers and salaried...

... incentives. Design/methodology/approach Five primary healthcare centers in Sweden were purposively selected for being well-operated and representing public/private and small/large units. In total, 43 interviews were completed with different medical professions and qualitative deductive content analysis...

...Francis A. Adzei; Roger A. Atinga Purpose This study seeks to undertake a systematic review to consolidate existing empirical evidence on the impact of financial and non‐financial incentives on motivation and retention of health workers in Ghana's district hospitals. Design/methodology/approach...

...Brian Ferguson; Jennifer N.W. Lim This paper attempts to define quality (particularly in terms of evidence‐based health care) and considers the incentives available to bring about improvements in quality. It examines the contribution that economics, as a discipline, can make to the debate...

... and shows that consultant behaviour and the factors that influence that behaviour are affected by their own characteristics, specifically age and specialty, although all specialties agreed that non‐financial incentives would influence their behaviour. Characteristics of opinion leaders were also found...

... making. This world is more complex than guidelines writers acknowledge, and includes economic, administrative, professional and personal incentives as well as those provided by research evidence. Engaging with this real world may be difficult, but it opens up new possibilities for understanding how...

...Rachela Levy; Bruce Rosen; Michael Wiener; Jonathan Mann The behaviour of health care professionals is known to be influenced, in part, by their method of remuneration and the financial incentives they face. Describes how the Medical Corps of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) went about choosing...