TY  - BOOK
AU  - Serneels,Pieter M
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - The performance of health workers in ethiopia-results from qualitative research
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D. C
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Community health aides
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Public health personnel
KW  - Public health
N1  - Also available online; "Insufficient attention has been paid to understanding what determines the performance of health workers and how they make labor market choices.  This paper reports on findings from focus group discussions with both health workers  and users of health services in Ethiopia, a country with some of the poorest health outcomes in the World.  It describes performance problems identified by both health, users and health workers participating in the focus group discussions, including absenteeism and shirking, pilfering drugs and materials, informal health care provision and illicit charging, and corruption.  The second part of the paper presents four structural reasons why these problems arise: (1) the ongoing transition from a health sector dominated by the public sector, toward a more mixed model; (2) the failure of government policies to keep pace with the transition toward a mixed model o; Includes bibliographical references; Open access
ER  -