Evidence-based Recommendations to Improve Retention, Attraction and Recruitment of Health Workers in Sudan

Background: Current literature systematically reports that interventions to retain and attract health workers in underprivileged areas need to be context specific but rarely defines what that means. In this systematic review, the study summarized and evaluates context factors influencing the enforcement of interventions to attract and retain health workers in rural area.

Methods: We searched online databases, pertinent websites and reference lists of selected papers to identify studies on mandatory rural service programs and financial rewarding. Four studies were selected. Information regarding context factors at macro, meso and micro levels was extracted and re-synthesized.

Conclusion: In all the articles reviewed, policies were in placement to hold health workers, the policies appear to be ineffective because workers are still animated from rural to urban areas and from Sudan abroad. There is an utmost need than constantly before for national-level overall policy formularization on non-financial and financial remuneration if there is to be refinement in the unjust distribution of health workers across the region.