Citation:
McConnell, Margaret, Mansha Mahajan, Sebastian Bauhoff, Kevin Croke, Stéphane Verguet, Marcia C Castro, Kheya Melo Furtado, et al. 2022. “How are Health Workers Paid and Does it Matter? Conceptualising the Potential Implications of Digitising Health Worker Payments.” BMJ Global Health 7 (1). Copy at https://tinyurl.com/y7lcu9z5
Abstract:
Summary box
- Payment digitisation efforts in the health sector in low/middle-income countries have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Research on impacts of worker payment digitisation on health systems is lacking.
- Our conceptual model details how payment digitisation could improve health systems.
- Wage digitisation has the potential to improve health system performance and provider well-being and consequently, patient outcomes.
- Critical gaps in evidence need to be addressed to support implementation and effective innovation.