Rural clinician scarcity and job preferences of doctors and nurses in India: A Discrete Choice Experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Rao, Krishna D ^a   Ryan, Mandy ^b   Shroff, Zubin ^c   Vujicic, Marko ^d   Ramani, Sudha ^a   Berman, Peter ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOUSING; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INDIA; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SALARY; URBAN AREA; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; MALE; MOTIVATION; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84893382275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082984     Document Type: Article

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