One size does not fit all: Investigating doctors' stated preference heterogeneity for job incentives to inform policy in Thailand

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1452-1469

  Lagarde, Mylene ^a   Pagaiya, Nonglak ^b   Tangcharoensathian, Viroj ^b   Blaauw, Duane ^c  

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

^b International Health Policy Program   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

discrete choice experiments; doctors; job preferences; preference heterogeneity; random parameter logit model; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL AREA; SALARY; THAILAND;

DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; DOCTORS; JOB PREFERENCES; PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY; RANDOM PARAMETER LOGIT MODEL; THAILAND;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; PHYSICIANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; THAILAND; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84887239182     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2897     Document Type: Article

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