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Table 1 Comparison of livelihood and workhood resources

From: "Workhood"-a useful concept for the analysis of health workers' resources? an evaluation from Tanzania

 

Livelihood assets [22]

Workhood assets

Definition

A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and social resources) and activities required for a means of living (1.1)

A workhood comprises the capabilities and assets (material, social and cognitive resources) and activities required to fulfill job requirements

Human capital

Knowledge, skills, ability to work, good health

Size of available work force willing and able to work

Physical capital

Basic infrastructure and production equipment and means (transport, buildings, water supply and sanitation, energy, information)

Basic infrastructure (buildings, transport, electricity, water and sanitation) and production equipment and means (supplies and drugs)

Financial capital

Regular inflows of money and stocks (savings, credits, remittances and pensions)

Regular inflows of money and savings through the collection of user-fees

Natural capital

Natural resource stocks (land, forest, marine/wild resources, water)

-

Social capital

Vertical and horizontal networks, membership in formalized groups, relationships of trust, reciprocity and exchange

Vertical and horizontal networks inside and outside the community and within the health facility leading to relationships of trust, reciprocity and exchange

Cultural capital

-

Everyday perceptions, knowledge, skills and professional degrees gained through socialization that find its expression in particular professional culture

Symbolic capital

-

Power-related resources such as prestige, reputation and recognition gained through the possession of other capitals (economic, social, cultural, human).