BACKGROUND This study intended to compare the clients' satisfaction with the quality of childbirth services in a private and public facility amongst mothers who have delivered within the last twenty four to seventy hours. METHODS This was a cross-sectional comparative research design with both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods. Data were collected through a foc...

Smallholder Global Value Chain Participation: The Role of Aggregation by Eva Szalkai Csaky Public Policy Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Frederick Mayer, Supervisor ___________________________ Gary Gereffi _________________________ Anirudh Krishna _______________________ Phyllis Pomerantz An abstract of a dissertation submitted in parti...

Employees’ attitude towards his/her job differs across organization’s sector. The present study aimed to find out the differences in employee’s attitude in public and private sector. For this purpose, managers’ reward power and coercive power were taken as independent variables and their impact on employees’ job satisfaction (dependent variable) was examined in both sectors. Sample of 130 respo...

BACKGROUND In China, public hospital reform has been underway for almost 5 years, and 311 pilot county hospitals are the current focus. This study aimed to assess the job satisfaction and active participation of medical staff in the reform. A total of 2268 medical staff members in pilot and non-pilot county hospitals in Hubei, China, were surveyed. METHODS Questionnaires were used to collect ...

OBJECTIVE To assess level of adult patients' satisfaction and associated factors in nursing care provided in selected public hospitals in Ethiopia. METHODS A cross sectional institution based study was conducted on 582 randomly selected patients admitted for at least two nights in three wards of selected public hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Patients were interviewed face to face using the ad...

BACKGROUND Ensuring health worker job satisfaction and motivation are important if health workers are to be retained and effectively deliver health services in many developing countries, whether they work in the public or private sector. The objectives of the paper are to identify important aspects of health worker satisfaction and motivation in two Indian states working in public and private s...

This article uses a quasi-natural experiment to investigate the adaptation of job satisfaction to externally driven political change in the public sector. This is important because democratic government bureaucracies often experience changes in leadership after elections. The analyses are based on data drawn from a large longitudinal data set, the British Household Panel Survey. Findings indica...