| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 55 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
World Bank working paper, 1726-5878 ; no. 191 |
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Africa human development series |
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World Bank working paper ; no. 191.
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Africa Region human development series.
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| Contents |
Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Executive Summary; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Background and Method; CHAPTER 3 Health Workers' Activities and Distribution; CHAPTER 4 Job Characteristics, Job Preferences, and Satisfaction; CHAPTER 5 The Choice between Rural and Urban Posting; CHAPTER 6 Likelihood of Migration Abroad; CHAPTER 7 Conclusion; APPENDIX A Survey Methodology; APPENDIX B Job Search; APPENDIX C Differences in Facility Infrastructure between Urban and Rural Locations; APPENDIX D Contingent Valuation Question for Rural versus Urban Job |
| Summary |
The Ethiopian health sector faces a number of challenges related to human resources, including geographical imbalances in the distribution of health workers, problems with job satisfaction, and a high willingness to migrate abroad. To address these challenges with appropriate policies, more empirical evidence is needed. The Ethiopian Health Workers Cohort Study was set up to produce evidence as input to policy design. To generate insights on health workers' career choices, preferences, and job satisfaction, the study followed the same health workers over time. The first wave of the study was conducted in April 2004 and surveyed 219 nursing students and 90 medical students who were in their final year of study. In the second wave of the survey, which took place between May and September 2007, researchers re-interviewed the nurses and the doctors, who had now entered the labor market. This paper reports the descriptive findings of the second wave as well as changes that were identified between the two survey rounds. The report is structured as follows. This chapter provides an overview of the Ethiopian health sector and a brief description of the survey methodology. Chapter two presents data on the health professionals' current activities, including the distribution of job functions across locations, sectors, and facilities. Chapter three summarizes the findings on job characteristics such as salaries and nonmonetary benefits; it also provides information about health professionals' level of satisfaction with job and life of and its evolution over time. Chapter four reports the results regarding health workers' willingness to work in rural areas, including an analysis of the evolution of reservation wages for work in a rural area, obtained from responses to contingent valuation questions. Chapter five focuses on the health worker's likelihood of migrating abroad in the near future, again using specially designed questions. Each chapter after chapter two starts with a summary of the pertinent results |
| Analysis |
Health workers -- Ethiopia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Medical personnel -- Ethiopia
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Medical personnel -- Ethiopia -- Statistics
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Vocational guidance.
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Cohort analysis.
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Health Workforce -- statistics & numerical data
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Career Choice
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Cohort Studies
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Emigration and Immigration -- statistics & numerical data
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Rural Health Services -- manpower
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Urban Health Services -- manpower
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Vocational Guidance
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vocational guidance.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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Vocational guidance
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Cohort analysis
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Medical personnel
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| SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- Statistics, Medical
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Ethiopia |
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Ethiopia
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics
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Medical statistics
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Statistics.
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Statistiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Serra, Danila.
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World Bank.
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| LC no. |
2010010858 |
| ISBN |
9780821383568 |
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0821383566 |
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9780821383575 |
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0821383574 |
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1282725602 |
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9781282725607 |
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9786612725609 |
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6612725605 |
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