Getting doctors into the bush: General practitioners' preferences for rural location

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-44

  Scott, Anthony ^a   Witt, Julia ^b   Humphreys, John ^c   Joyce, Catherine ^c   Kalb, Guyonne ^a   Jeon, Sung Hee ^a   McGrail, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Discrete choice experiment; Incentives; Physicians; Primary care; Rural

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; INCENTIVE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RELOCATION; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION SIZE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SALARY; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALIA; CAREER CHOICE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 84883821815     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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