'I have no love for such people, because they leave us to suffer': a qualitative study of health workers' responses and institutional adaptations to absenteeism in rural Uganda.
Raymond TweheyoCatherine ReedStephen CampbellLinda DaviesGavin Daker-WhitePublished in: BMJ global health (2019)
High levels of absenteeism attributed to clinicians and health service managers result in work overload and stress for frontline health workers, and unsupervised informal task shifting of clinical workload to nurses, who are the less clinically skilled. In resource-limited settings, the underlying causes of absenteeism and low staff morale require attention, because when left unattended, the coping responses to absenteeism can be seen to compromise the well-being of the workforce, the quality of healthcare and patients' access to care.
Keyphrases
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