Claudia Lema

TL;DR: Taking into account the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this study recommends that national governments develop targeted policy responses to Indigenous health, improving access to health services, and Indigenous data within national surveillance systems.

TL;DR: Implementing a model of skilled delivery attendance that integrates modern medical and traditional Andean elements is feasible and sustainable and contradicts common victim-blaming attitudes that ascribe high levels of home births to 'cultural preferences' or 'ignorance'.

TL;DR: Policy simulations showed that the most effective attraction package to uptake a rural job included a 75% increase in salary plus scholarship for a specialization, which would increase the proportion of health workers taking a ruralJob from 36% up to 60%.

TL;DR: Doctors are five times more likely to favour a job in urban areas over rural settings, a strong preference that needs to be overcome by future policies aimed at improving the scarcity of rural doctors.

TL;DR: The main incentives for attracting and retaining health workers in rural and remote health facilities in Ayacucho, Peru were higher wages, opportunities for further training, longer/permanent contracts, better infrastructure and medical equipment, and more staff.