Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review
Open Access
- 29 May 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 9 (1), 86
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-86
Abstract
In many geographic regions, both in developing and in developed countries, the number of health workers is insufficient to achieve population health goals. Financial incentives for return of service are intended to alleviate health worker shortages: A (future) health worker enters into a contract to work for a number of years in an underserved area in exchange for a financial pay-off.Keywords
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