Physician shortages in rural Vietnam: Using a labor market approach to inform policy

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 970-977

  Vujicic, Marko ^a   Shengelia, Bakhuti ^a   Alfano, Marco ^b   Thu, Ha Bui ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HANOI UNIVERSITY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Discrete choice experiment; Human resources for health; Labor market; Physician shortage; Retention; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN RESOURCE; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); RETURNS TO EDUCATION; RURAL ECONOMY;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; JOB ACCOMMODATION; JOB MARKET; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN INCOME; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; VIET NAM; WORKPLACE;

VIET NAM;

EID: 80052661197     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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