It provides a comprehensive background to incentive payments (payment by volume and payment by results) in the NHS.
In section 2 we present the development of the green car market in Sweden and the legal background and incentives provided by the state in order to promote green cars.
8 Against this background, financial incentives have been considered in such patients to improve adherence to drugs.
Given the background and incentives above, we have developed several user-defined functions (UDF) to process large scale administrative data for ease of epidemiological analysis, based on a Pig Latin script in the Hadoop framework [ 17].
Various strategies, including educational interventions such as selecting students with rural background, increasing financial incentives, and professional development incentives, have been implemented in an attempt to recruit and retain health professionals to rural and remote areas [ 11- 13].
In sum, the existing literature pays more attention to the institutional background, motivation and incentive mechanisms, and categorization of local policy innovations.
In addition, we searched the internet for information on incentives in health care applying the same keywords as used in the database searches as well as for additional background information on incentive initiatives mentioned in the articles identified through the literature search.
Various schemes have been devised by the Australian government to improve the recruitment and retention of the rural health workforce, such as the introduction of scholarships, increasing the number of students with rural background, and financial incentives [ 1- 3, 5, 10- 14].
Dependent (duration of stay in current job and job satisfaction) and independent variables (such as background characteristics, financial incentives, and work environment factors) were chosen to determine factors affecting job satisfaction and attrition.
Against this background, they suggest that incentives and digital tools could be put in place, while maintaining equal protection levels for all workers.
