Abstract
Motivating Factors Contributing to Retention of Community Health Workers in Rural Liberia: A Qualitative Study
Highlights
A shortage of doctors, distance to health facility and poor infrastructure make accessing healthcare difficult for communities in rural Liberia
In order to provide basic healthcare to Liberians living more than 5 kilometers from the nearest health facility and strengthen its health system weakened by civil war and Ebola, the Liberian Ministry of Health plans to scale up a community health worker (CHW) program piloted by Last Mile Health, and recruit 4000 CHWs over the five years
Research question: What are the intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors which contribute to the retention of community health workers employed by the Last Mile Health program in Liberia?
Summary
A shortage of doctors, distance to health facility and poor infrastructure make accessing healthcare difficult for communities in rural Liberia. In order to provide basic healthcare to Liberians living more than 5 kilometers from the nearest health facility and strengthen its health system weakened by civil war and Ebola, the Liberian Ministry of Health plans to scale up a community health worker (CHW) program piloted by Last Mile Health, and recruit 4000 CHWs over the five years. We aimed to understand the factors which contribute to CHW retention, as worker retention is key in building a sustainable CHW program. Research question: What are the intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors which contribute to the retention of community health workers employed by the Last Mile Health program in Liberia?. We evaluated the use of a WhatsApp messaging group among clinical staff of the Internal Medicine department at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi.
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