Job Preferences of Nurses and Midwives for Taking Up a Rural Job in Peru: A Discrete Choice Experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Huicho, Luis ^a,b,c,d   Miranda, J Jaime ^a,d   Diez Canseco, Francisco ^d   Lema, Claudia ^e   Lescano, Andrés G ^a,f   Lagarde, Mylene ^g   Blaauw, Duane ^h  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD DEL NIÑO   (Peru)

^d CRONICAS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN CHRONIC DISEASES   (Peru)

^e Salud Sin Limites Peru   (Peru)

^f Peru   (Peru)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB FINDING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDWIFE; NURSE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PERU; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SPECIALIZATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; NURSES; PERU; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84871402934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050315     Document Type: Article

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