Preferences for working in rural clinics among trainee health professionals in Uganda: A discrete choice experiment

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rockers, Peter C ^a   Jaskiewicz, Wanda ^b   Wurts, Laura ^b   Kruk, Margaret E ^c   Mgomella, George S ^d   Ntalazi, Francis ^e   Tulenko, Kate ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SONATEL Lot R73   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866393257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-212     Document Type: Article

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