Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas: seven management functions | BioMed Central Human Resources for Health Open Access Review Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas seven management functions Till Bărnighausen 1 2 and David E Bloom2 Address Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies University of KwaZulu-Natal Mtubatuba South Africa and 2Harvard School of Public Health Harvard University Boston Massachusetts USA Email Till Bărnighausen - tbaernig@ David E Bloom - dbloom@ Corresponding author Published 26 June 2009 Received 28 July 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 52 doi 1478-4491-7-52 Accepted 26 June 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 52 2009 Barnighausen and Bloom licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ In many countries worldwide health worker shortages are one of the main constraints in achieving population health goals. Financial-incentive programmes for return of service whereby participants receive payments in return for a commitment to practise for a period of time in a medically underserved area can alleviate local and regional health worker shortages through a number of mechanisms. First they can redirect the flow of those health workers who would have been educated without financial incentives from well-served to underserved areas. Second they can add health workers to the pool of workers who would have been educated without financial incentives and place them in underserved areas. Third financial-incentive programmes may improve the retention in underserved areas of those health workers who participate in a programme but .
