ReviewHuman resources for health2013
Absenteeism amongst health workers--developing a typology to support empiric work in low-income countries and characterizing reported associations.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Predictive power of socio-demographic attributes of healthcare workers on data quality in Tanzanian regional referral hospitals.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Absenteeism of Healthcare Workers in Primary Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.The International journal of health planning and management · 2025Article
- Absenteeism Among Healthcare Workers: Job Grade and Other Factors That Matter in Sickness Absence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Relationship between job stress and work-related quality of life among emergency medical technicians: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The association of burnout with work absenteeism and the frequency of thoughts in leaving their job in a cohort of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
- Sick Leave Determinants in the Healthcare Sector (Part I): A Review of Contextual Factors.The Brown journal of hospital medicine · 2023Review
- Sick Leave Determinants in the Healthcare Sector (Part II): A Review of Organizational-Level Factors.The Brown journal of hospital medicine · 2023Review
- Sick Leave Determinants in the Healthcare Sector (Part III): A Review of Individual-Level Factors.Journal of Brown hospital medicine · 2023Review
- Absenteeism in primary health centres in Nigeria: leveraging power, politics and kinship.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- The gendered drivers of absenteeism in the Nigerian health system.Health policy and planning · 2022Article
- Measuring the availability of human resources for health and its relationship to universal health coverage for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Article
- Public Service Motivation and Determining Factors to Attract and Retain Health Professionals in the Public Sector: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Corruption in the health sector: A problem in need of a systems-thinking approach.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Disability and Economic Loss Caused by Headache among Information Technology Workers in Korea.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Article
- Supply-side factors influencing informal payment for healthcare services in Tanzania.Health policy and planning · 2021Article
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Abstract
The contribution of inadequate health worker numbers and emigration have been highlighted in the international literature, but relatively little attention has been paid to absenteeism as a factor that undermines health-care delivery in low income countries. We therefore aimed to review the literature on absenteeism from a health system manager's perspective to inform needed work on this topic. Specifically, we aimed to develop a typology of definitions that might be useful to classify different forms of absenteeism and identify factors associated with absenteeism. Sixty-nine studies were reviewed, only four were from sub-Saharan Africa where the human resources for health crisis is most acute. Forms of absenteeism studied and methods used vary widely. No previous attempt to develop an overarching approach to classifying forms of absenteeism was identified. A typology based on key characteristics is proposed to fill this gap and considers absenteeism as defined by two key attributes, whether it is: planned/unplanned, and voluntary/involuntary. Factors reported to influence rates of absenteeism may be broadly classified into three thematic categories: workplace and content, personal and organizational and cultural factors. The literature presents an inconsistent picture of the effects of specific factors within these themes perhaps related to true contextual differences or inconsistent definitions of absenteeism.
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