Job satisfaction and expected turnover among federal, state, and local public health practitioners

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1782-1788

  Leider, Jonathon P ^a   Harper, Elizabeth ^b   Shon, Ji Won ^c   Sellers, Katie ^b   Castrucci, Brian C ^a  

^a De Beaumont Foundation   (United States)

^b ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; STAFF; TURNOVER TIME; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETIREMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES; HUMANS; INTENTION; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETIREMENT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988028088     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303305     Document Type: Article

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