HRH Global Resource Center - Salary

Performance-Based Financing: Fact Sheet

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:40:29 +0000

Performance-based financing (PBF) is a powerful management approach to increase the quantity and quality of health services by providing incentives to service providers to improve performance. [from introduction]

Migration of South African Health Workers: The Extent to Which Financial Considerations Influence Internal Flows and External Movements

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:07:41 +0000

This study investigates the causes of migration focusing on the role of salaries and benefits. Health professionals from public, private and non-governmental health facilities located in selected peri-urban and urban areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa were surveyed about their current positions and attitudes toward migration. [from abstract]

Health Workforce Remuneration: Comparing Wage Levels, Ranking, and Dispersion of 16 Occupational Groups in 20 Countries

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:38:55 +0000

This article explores remuneration in human resources for health, comparing wage levels, ranking and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries is to examine to what extent the wage rankings, standardized wage levels, and wage dispersion are similar between the groups and across the selected countries and what factors can be shown to be related to the differences that emerge. [adapted from abstract]

Working Conditions of the Health Workforce in Nepal

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:38:11 +0000

This report examines working conditions of health workers in Nepal in relation to income and incentives, work supplies and equipment, issues on safety and security and the role of local authorities and the community. [from summary]

Health Worker Satisfaction and Motivation: An Empirical Study of Incomes, Allowances and Working Conditions in Zambia

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:45:54 +0000

In this study the authors examine the relationship between health worker incomes and their satisfaction and motivation. [from abstract]

Wages and Health Worker Retention in Ghana: Evidence from Public Sector Wage Reforms

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:29:31 +0000

This paper investigates whether governments in developing countries can retain skilled health workers by raising public sector wages using sudden, policy-induced wage variation, in which the Government of Ghana restructured the pay scale for government health workers. [adapted from abstract]

Ugandan Health Workers Speak: The Rewards and the Realities

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:27:40 +0000

This report is based on the accounts of 90 Ugandan health workers at the front line. The research explored with them the rewards and the challenges, explanations for perceived poor practices and promising solutions. The interim findings focus on the rewards of being a health worker and how low pay affects them. [from introduction]

Decent Pensions for Nurses

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:00:59 +0000

This monograph presents an analysis of the various factors that affect pension adequacy and sustainability in order to improve the understanding of the factors at stake and how they relate to the specific situation of nurses, particularly, though not exclusively, in advanced economies. [from summary]

Health Workers Wages: an Overview from Selected Countries

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:15 +0000

The overall objective of this background paper for the World Health Report 2006 is to describe variations in health worker wages across countries. However, where data are available, the authors explore variations within countries between health workers and comparable professionals. The main issues of standardization and comparability are discussed. The results are a first attempt to understand the nature of the variability of wages across settings. [from publisher]

Health Worker Salaries and Benefits: Lessons from Bolivia, Peru and Chile

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:17:53 +0000

The most common problems related to Health Workers Salaries and Benefits (HWSB) in Bolivia, Peru and Chile are shortage of health workers, disparity of skills, poor distribution of health workers, inadequate working environments and low knowledge about the characteristic of HWSB. This report collects data about these countries, showing that the wages of doctors during the last fifteen years have generally had to increase more than the wages of other workers. [adapted from executive summary]