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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spelling okr-10986-231572021-04-23T14:04:13Z Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study Akwataghibe, Ngozi Samaranayake, Dulani Lemiere, Christophe Dieleman, Marjolein salaries coping mechanisms health workers mixed methods randomized response technique 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. 2015-11-30T20:02:57Z 2015-11-30T20:02:57Z 2013-10-04 Journal Article BMC Health Services Research http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23157 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank BioMed Central Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Nigeria
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coping mechanisms
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coping mechanisms
health workers
mixed methods
randomized response technique
Akwataghibe, Ngozi
Samaranayake, Dulani
Lemiere, Christophe
Dieleman, Marjolein
Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study
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description 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.
format Journal Article
author Akwataghibe, Ngozi
Samaranayake, Dulani
Lemiere, Christophe
Dieleman, Marjolein
author_facet Akwataghibe, Ngozi
Samaranayake, Dulani
Lemiere, Christophe
Dieleman, Marjolein
author_sort Akwataghibe, Ngozi
title Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study
title_short Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study
title_full Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study
title_fullStr Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Health Workers’ Revenues and Coping Strategies in Nigeria : A Mixed-Methods Study
title_sort assessing health workers’ revenues and coping strategies in nigeria : a mixed-methods study
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23157
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