The labor market for health workers in Africa : a new look at the crisis / Agnes Soucat, Richard Scheffler, with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, editors.

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2013.

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"'The labor market for health workers in Africa : a new look at the crisis' sheds light on the status of health worker need, supply, and distribution across Africa. It analyzes regional and country data to answer six key questions: What are the specific levels of human resources for health in Africa? What are the differences in human resources for health across countries? What are the changing roles of the public and private sector in the health worker market? What motivates health worker performance? How do you train health workers? How do you produce them? This book uses the analytical tools of labor markets and views the human resource crisis in health from an economic perspective" -- chapter 1.

Labor markets analysis of human resources for health -- Needs-based estimates for the health workforce -- A labor market approach -- Productivity of health workers : Tanzania -- Health worker performance -- Fiscal issues in scaling up the health workforce -- Politics and governance in human resources for health -- How many health workers -- Rural/urban imbalance of health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Migration and attrition -- Public and private practice of health workers -- The equity perspective -- Incentives for provider performance -- Intrinsic motivation -- Facility-level human resource management -- Health worker education and training -- Becoming a health worker student -- Paying for higher education reform in health.