Health workers' competencies and performance did not conform to requisite standards stipulated by service and other regulatory guidelines, alluding to challenges in quality of training and curricula.
Policymakers and planners are realising that it is simply not possible to achieve the Millennium Development Goals if health workers' availability and performance are not addressed more effectively.
In their study on health workers' motivation and performance in Benin, Alihonou et al. [ 12] suggest introducing non-financial incentives while also improving structural conditions.
Disease surveillance feedback has been described as one of the most important activities for improving health workers capacities and performance [ 28].
Razee et al., [ 3], identified the key social factors impacting on health workers' motivation and performance to be the local community context, gender roles and family related issues, safety and security, health beliefs and attitudes of patients and community members.
Despite rural health services being situated and integrated within communities in which people work and live, the complex interaction of the social environment on health workers' motivation and performance in low and middle income countries has been neglected in research.
Though compromised transparency in accessing training opportunities and promotions did not emerge strongly in our study, other studies done elsewhere report their existence and their impact to health workers' motivation and performance [ 17, 43].
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government health workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information.
The company is, as the lyrics suggest, a way to "praise" your co-workers instantly and perform performance reviews without much fuss.
Consequently, there is no global model for improving the retention of health workers and their performance.
