Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a bidding game approach
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Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a bidding game approach
BACKGROUND BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which contributes to high dropout and poor performance. This results challenges for the cost effectiveness and sust...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics Review
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2191-1991
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-014-0016-4