Attracting and retaining health workers in rural areas: investigating nurses’ views on rural posts and policy interventions
Open Access
- 2 July 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 10 (S1) , S1
Abstract
Kenya has bold plans for scaling up priority interventions nationwide, but faces major human resource challenges, with a lack of skilled workers especially in the most disadvantaged rural areas.Keywords
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