International Journal of Academic Health and Medical Research (IJAHMR)   Year: 2023 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 83-93 Using Ordered Probit Regression Model to Examine the Effect of Financial Incentive and Demographic Factors on Performance of Health Workers in Gairo District, Tanzania Download PDF Abel F. Moshi, Bernard B. Mlilile, Ester W. Ugulumu Abstract: This study ought to find out how financial incentives and demographic factors influence the performance of health worker in Gairo District - Tanzania. The cross-sectional research design and semi-structured questionnaire was employed. The purposive non-probability sampling technique was used to select 100 respondents as a representative sample. The data was collected through questionnaire. The data was analyzed using ordered probit regression and descriptive analysis. The empirical finding suggests that cash incentive particularly compensation was less likely to influence high performance and moderate performance than lower performance of health workers. This simply shows when health worker compensated through extra time spent at work, probability of high performance reduced by 5.2%, moderate performance reduced by 24% while low performance increased by 29.15%. The study also shows that, worker relationship was less likely to influence high performance by 3.8%, moderate performance by 15.7% while low performance increased by 19.35%. The finding further suggests that male health workers were more likely to perform higher in health service delivery than female health workers while higher education was strongly associated with higher performance of health workers. The study concluded, management should employ more male workers and high educated health workers so as to improve to better health service provision to patients.