Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: A systematic review

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bärnighausen, Till ^a,b   Bloom, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; JAPAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MANPOWER; REVIEW; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 68049120246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-86     Document Type: Article

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