In relation to their income level per year (JOD), 50% of the respondents earned less than 3000 per year; 60% were very dissatisfied and only 3.3% were satisfied with their working conditions, and participants clarified that their dissatisfaction arises from the disconnect between what they perceived to be low remuneration relative to their extensive workload and long working hours.
Unlike pharmacists in previous studies [ 30, 46], this study showed that pharmacists did not indicate lack of remuneration as one of the important perceived barriers to obesity counseling.
The U.S. was preferred over the U.K. as a destination, largely because the U.S. was perceived to have better remuneration and reduced competition for entrance into the country.
Whilst the pursuit of higher salaries was recognised as an important factor in historical emigration, the higher remuneration of doctors under EHRP is perceived to have aided the retention of new doctors.
The findings on perceived satisfaction with financial remunerations are critical to understanding and designing financial incentives in the health sector given the important role of financial remuneration in the provision of quality healthcare services.
Improvement in remuneration is one of the most important perceived factors in retaining health professionals in rural practice.
Financial remuneration, promotions and professional development opportunities were also perceived as important in the study from Thailand, similar to the data in our study.
45 46 Barriers to CVD guideline implementation include time constraints; 45 47 patient compliance; 45 financial limitations, including lack of GP remuneration; 45 46 government health policy; 45 lack of perceived usefulness, including inadequate knowledge of the risk scoring systems; 47 and fear of over-use of medical therapies.
An interaction effect also demonstrated that under conditions of high investment in remuneration, drivers reported safer behaviour, but only when they perceived that managers valued and prioritised safety.
Although remuneration was not as strong a condition for women as for men to become a CHW, lack of remuneration and sometimes lack of spousal support (women were perceived to "waste time" if they engaged in community work) were reasons to drop out for female CHWs [ 63].
There was a high degree of job dissatisfaction tied to the amount of remuneration they received per working day, which was not perceived as being proportional to the working hours and effort invested.
