Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas: A multicountry discrete choice experiment;Comment attirer le personnel infirmier dans les zones rurales? résultats d'une expérience à choix discrets réalisée dans plusieurs pays

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 350-356

  Blaauw, D ^a   Erasmus, E ^a   Pagaiya, N ^b   Tangcharoensathein, V ^b   Mullei, K ^c   Mudhune, S ^c   Goodman, C ^c   English, M ^c   Lagarde, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b International Health Policy Program   (Thailand)

^c KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH WORKER; LOGIT ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; RURAL AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING STUDENT; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH NURSING; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HOUSING; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; NURSES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND;

KENYA; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND;

EID: 77952652663     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.072918     Document Type: Article

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