Location and vocation: Why some government doctors stay on in rural Chhattisgarh, India

International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 192-199

  Sheikh, Kabir ^a   Rajkumari, Babita ^a   Jain, Kamlesh ^b   Rao, Krishna ^a   Patanwar, Pratibha ^b   Gupta, Garima ^c   Antony, K R ^b   Sundararaman, T ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b State Health Resource Centre Chhattisgarh   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   (India)

Author keywords

Doctors; Health workforce; India; Qualitative; Retention; Rural

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FIELD WORK; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONAL VALUE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL WELFARE; SPOUSE; VOCATION;

EID: 84865570043     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: 18763405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inhe.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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