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hls-10376	Mdegela, Mselenge; Mvula, Chimwemwe Joe; Vermand, Ndemetria; Madaj, Barbara; O’Hare, Joseph Paul	Why measure the retention of health workers within borders? Lessons learned from the ETATMBA program in measuring health workforce retention in Malawi and Tanzania	2022	5	.pdf	application/pdf	4167	245	56	The WHO also proposes the numerator and denominator for measuring these indicators, suggests the data sources required, and the reporting frequency.15 However, these parameters are not in every- day use in most countries, in part due to the lack of awareness on these indicators and poor HRH monitoring practices, especially in low-resource countries.16 Russell et al. describes five parameters for measuring health workforce retention: i) the turnover rate, ii) stability rate, iii) sur- vival probability, iv) median survival years, and v) cox-proportional hazard ratio.17 However, studies that have attempted to measure retention using these parameters choose numerators and denominators differ- ently, making it difficult to compare or syn- thesize the reported parameters.18,19 We describe our experience in measur- ing retention among health workers who took part in the ETATMBA program in Malawi and Tanzania. +44.774.588.9310 E-mail: mselenge.mdegela@outlook.com Key words: Health workers; health workforce; Malawi; retention; Tanzania. Acknowledgements: The authors thank Professor Nynke van den Broek for her contri- bution to the study design and Caroline Hercod at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for proofreading the manuscript.	cache/hls-10376.pdf	txt/hls-10376.txt