Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study

The setting of realistic performance-based financing rewards necessitates not just knowledge of health workers’ salaries, but of the revenue that accrues from their additional income-generating activities. This study examined the coping mechanisms of health workers in the public health sector of Nas...

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Main Authors: Akwataghibe, Ngozi, Samaranayake, Dulani, Lemiere, Christophe, Dieleman, Marjolein
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23157
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Summary:The setting of realistic performance-based financing rewards necessitates not just knowledge of health workers’ salaries, but of the revenue that accrues from their additional income-generating activities. This study examined the coping mechanisms of health workers in the public health sector of Nasarawa and Ondo states in Nigeria to supplement their salaries and benefits; it also estimated the proportionate value of the revenues from those coping mechanisms in relation to the health workers’ official incomes.