Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. / This paper reviews retention strategies for Lesotho’s doctors and nurses and presented an implementation framework to support and promote staff retention. . Based on the increasing necessity to retain doctors and nurses, the implementation framework becomes an essential element of retention strategy. A qualitative and quantitative research design technique using a self-managed questionnaire and interviews was adopted to gather data. The 120 doctors and nurses make up a sample. The information was statistically analysed using SPSS and grounded theory. Results identified that the current implementation strategy has failed to increase the retention rate of doctors and nurses. It is hoped that the implementation framework presented in this paper would help to achieve increased retention rate for doctors and nurses.

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / The South African Northern Cape Department of Health has many challenges to overcome in order to provide the province with quality public health care. One of these challenges is the recruitment and retention of foreign doctors in order to maintain and improve on the population’s access to physicians. Due to the lack of locally trained physicians willing to work and settle in the Northern Cape Province, the Department of Health in the province have been employing foreign-trained physicians to fill the gap in providing adequate medical care to its population. This study examined how well foreign doctors have integrated into the Northern Cape public health care system. It further identified, described and explored the factors that might influence the integration of these foreign physicians. This was done in order to make recommendations to improve the existing retention strategies of the Northern Cape Department of Health. This research utilised the mixed-method of research by obtaining secondary qualitative as well as primary quantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained through a literature review. Questionnaires informed by the literature review were utilised in order to obtain the primary quantitative data. The data obtained were subjected to a statistical analysis.The results indicated that the needs of the foreign doctors were generally met and the factors pertaining to work, community and family aspects of integration did not have an overtly negative or positive influence on integration. The results pertaining to rurality were not as prominent as expected. The main factors identified related to relational (professional as well as personal) factors. The researcher concluded that relational factors contributed the most as they had an influence on all the categories of possible factors that might influence integration. This finding stressed that the social phenomena that influence integration should not be overlooked. The implementation of interventions to improve integration and retention should be accompanied by a detailed examination of the factors that affect the recruitment, integration and retention of the workforce in a country/region. This research could be an important step towards achieving this goal for the Northern Cape Department of Health.

Submitted by Débora Mazetto (deba.mazetto@gmail.com) on 2018-02-22T14:48:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2018 02 22 Dissertação - Débora Mazetto.pdf: 4586182 bytes, checksum: 5bc66ec2a7f41479e466df5476584186 (MD5) / Rejected by Thais Oliveira (thais.oliveira@fgv.br), reason: Prezada Débora, boa tarde! Para que possamos aprovar seu trabalho, é necessário que faça somente três alterações: - O nome "Getulio", não tem acento; - A data da aprovação deve estar em branco; - A numeração de páginas aparece somente a partir da página da introdução. Qualquer dúvida, entre em contato. Thais Oliveira mestradoprofissional@fgv.br 3799-7764 on 2018-02-27T18:51:46Z (GMT) / Submitted by Débora Mazetto (deba.mazetto@gmail.com) on 2018-02-27T20:08:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2018 02 27 Dissertação - Débora Mazetto.pdf: 4585173 bytes, checksum: 2ec20cd6c567fa39dc0f51d8a8b91705 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Thais Oliveira (thais.oliveira@fgv.br) on 2018-02-27T21:37:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2018 02 27 Dissertação - Débora Mazetto.pdf: 4585173 bytes, checksum: 2ec20cd6c567fa39dc0f51d8a8b91705 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-28T13:07:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2018 02 27 Dissertação - Débora Mazetto.pdf: 4585173 bytes, checksum: 2ec20cd6c567fa39dc0f51d8a8b91705 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-05 / The 'Mais Médicos' Program was launched by the federal government in 2013 with the main objective of reducing the shortage of physicians in regions of socioeconomic vulnerability in Brazil. Since then, the program has been attracting interest in evaluating its effectiveness on the localities adhered. This paper aims to measure the effects generated by the 'Mais Médicos' Program on health indicators of Brazilian municipalities from an econometric approach of policy evaluation. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, the effects on indicators of basic health care, morbidity and mortality were analyzed from the Program data between 2013 and 2015. There are evidences that the 'Mais Médicos' Program has positive effects on the primary healthcare indicators, particularly on appointments, consultations, referrals, examinations, and home visits, and negative effects over some indicators of morbidity. However, the Program does not seem to have been able to reduce mortality in the municipalities. / O Programa Mais Médicos foi lançado pelo governo federal em 2013 e seu objetivo principal é reduzir a escassez de médicos em regiões de vulnerabilidade socioeconômica no Brasil. Desde então, o programa vem atraindo interesse em avaliar sua efetividade sobre as localidades aderidas. Este trabalho se propõe a medir os efeitos gerados pelo Programa Mais Médicos sobre indicadores de saúde dos municípios brasileiros a partir de uma abordagem econométrica de avaliação de políticas. Empregando uma metodologia de diferença em diferenças, foi analisado o efeito sobre indicadores de atendimento básico de saúde, de morbidade e de mortalidade a partir de dados do Programa de 2013 a 2015. Existem evidências de que o programa 'Mais Médicos' tem efeitos positivos sobre os indicadores de atendimento básico de saúde, particularmente em atendimentos, consultas, encaminhamentos, exames e visitas, e efeitos negativos sobre alguns indicadores de morbidade. No entanto, o Programa não parece ter conseguido reduzir a mortalidade nos municípios.