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The Importance of Incentives

In this video, Malabika Sarker explains that incentives play a significant role for healthcare workers, no matter the form. (Step 4.8)

Malabika Sarker, MBBS, MPH, PhD James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh

Incentives play a significant role for healthcare workers, no matter the form.

From the lecture and listed reading Per Diems in Polio Eradication: Perspectives from Community Health Workers and Officials, consider the following:

  • What might be likely adverse effects of providing financial incentives, such as per diems?
  • How can public health programs better incentivize their human resources?

Post your answers in the discussion section.

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