Title: Discovering the real world : how health workers' early work experience affects their career preferences - findings from the second wave of a cohort study of young Ethiopian doctors and nurses
Abstract: The Ethiopian health sector faces a number of challenges related to human resources, like geographical imbalances, problem with job satisfaction and a high willingness to migrate abroad. In order for the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) to continue its move towards evidence based policies, it was agreed to set up the Ethiopian health workers cohort study. This study will follow health workers over time in order to better understand health workers career choices, preferences, and job satisfaction. The report is structured as follows. Section one provides an overview of the Ethiopian health sector and a brief description of the survey methodology. Section two presents the health professionals' current activities including the distribution across locations, sectors and facilities. Section three summarizes the findings of the job characteristics like salaries, non-monetary benefits and other characteristics; it also provides information about the job and life satisfaction of health professionals, and it evolution over time. Section four reports the results regarding health workers' willingness to work in rural areas, including an analysis of the evolution of reservation wages to work in a rural area, obtained from contingent valuation questions. Finally, section five focuses on the health workers' likelihood to migrate abroad in the near future, again using specifically designed questions.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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