Incentives for non-physician health professionals to work in the rural and remote areas of Mozambique-a discrete choice experiment for eliciting job preferences

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Honda, Ayako ^a   Vio, Ferruccio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Discrete choice experiment; Health worker motivation; Job preferences; Mozambique; Non physician health professionals; Retention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOUSING; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MANPOWER; MOTIVATION; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENT; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOUSING; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NURSES; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928579200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12960-015-0015-5     Document Type: Article

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