tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Health workforce attrition in the public sector in Kenya: a look at the reasons"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Health workforce attrition in the public sector in Kenya: a look at the reasons | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Health workforce attrition in the public sector in Kenya a look at the reasons Slavea Chankova 1 Stephen Muchiri2 and Gilbert Kombe1 Open Access Address Unternational Health Division Abt Associates Inc. Bethesda Maryland USA and 2Ministry of State for Planning National Development and Vision 2030 Nairobi Kenya Email Slavea Chankova - slavea_chankova@ Stephen Muchiri - stephen_muchiri@ Gilbert Kombe - gilbert_kombe@ Corresponding author Published 21 July 2009 Received 16 April 2009 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 58 doi 1478-4491-7-58 Accepted 21 July 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 58 2009 Chankova et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Kenya like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa has been affected by shortages of health workers in the public sector. Data on the rates and leading reasons for health workers attrition in the public sector are key in developing effective evidence-based planning and policy on human resources for health. Methods This study analysed data from a human resources health facility survey conducted in 2005 in 52 health centres and 22 public hospitals including all provincial hospitals across all eight provinces in Kenya. The study looked into the status of attrition rates and the proportion of attrition due to retirement resignation or death among doctors clinical officers nurses and laboratory and pharmacy specialists in surveyed facilities. Results Overall health workers attrition rates from 2004 to 2005 were similar across type of health facility provincial hospitals lost on average 4 of their health workers .