Insights to optimizing health extension workers’ time use and efficiency in Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Inefficiencies are common among HEWs. Strategies need to be devised focusing on the identified modifiable factors such as improving accountability and performance management practices, introducing incentive mechanisms to keep HEWs motivated, improving accessibility to transportation services, and security conditions, workforce to population size ratio; and capacity building.
Authors
- Peter Decat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8948-6040)
- Kora Tushune Godana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4168-8799)
- Negalign Berhanu Bayou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0975-8358)
- Yohannes Kebede (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3142-5266)
- Yibeltal Kiflie Alemayehu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1781-0777)
Institutions
- Jimma University (ET)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Precise Consult International (Ethiopia) (ET)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Global Health Action
- Published
- 2025-08-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2025.2548629
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation