Duane Blaauw

TL;DR: It is clear that recognition is highly influential in health worker motivation and that adequate resources and appropriate infrastructure can improve morale significantly, but financial incentives alone are not enough to motivate health workers.

TL;DR: The paper proposes a set of short- and long-term stewardship tasks, which include resisting the verticalisation of HIV treatment, the evaluation of community health workers and their potential role in HIV treatment access, international action on the brain drain, and greater investment in national human resource functions of planning, production, remuneration and management.

TL;DR: In Kenya and South Africa, better educational opportunities or rural allowances would be most effective in increasing the uptake of rural posts, while in Thailand better health insurance coverage would have the greatest impact.

TL;DR: Differences in the levels of job satisfaction and intention to leave between different groups of health workers from Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa are shown and highlight the need for less standardised and more targeted HRH strategies.

TL;DR: A range of potential interventions to increase rural recruitment and retention in Kenya are identified, with those most favored by nursing students being additional rural allowances, and allowing choice of rural location.