Nelofer Amir, Ramesh Kumar.
Incentives scheme can be both beneficial & counterproductive: a systematic review of efficacy and values of health workers’ incentives in health sector.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;3(3):35-40.

Background: Human resource for health is believed to be an important factor of health system. Pakistan is the country who is facing big challenge of health workers migration and shortage of health staff. Incentives known to be important interventions while in better management and retention of health work force in any country. Incentive is required to retain capable, fascinated, and motivated health workforce in order to develop a health system reactive to the requirements of the target population. During this systematic review the evidence on efficacy and value of Incentives for health workers were analyzed. Methods: During this secondary review, 10,626 articles were accessed and finally 22 articles were included for the analysis according to the study objectives rest was excluded. WHO database, Global Health Worker Alliance, CINAHL and SCOPUS and Pub Med in addition to by internet search engine Google were accessed during this secondary review. Results: 22 published papers were analyzed shows that incentives in form of improved salaries, perks, benefits, trainings, promotions, supervisions, work environment, good relationship, autonomy during their job, communication, performance based benefits and opportunities were found significant in the retention of health workers working in health sectors of different developed and developing countries. Conclusions: Review concludes that the incentives for health professionals have positives impacts on the retention of Human resources for health in any organization.

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