Authors: Fisaha Haile, Dejen Yemane and Azeb Gebreslassie
Volunteer community health workers (VCHW) are health care providers who are trained but do not have any professional certification. They are intended to fill the gap for unmet curative, preventative, and health promotion health needs of communities.
The VCHWs are the only unpaid health workers in the Ethiopian health care system. Therefore, identifying the non-financial incentives is very crucial and timely. Motivation to become VCHW appeared to originate from desire for self-development, improve community health, and utilization of free time; thus, this study aims to investigate the non-financial incentives and factors that affect motivation of VCHWs.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Community Involvement, Country Ownership, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Motivation/incentives, Training
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2014
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Ethiopia
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