Rural retention of new medical graduates from the Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors (CPIRD): A 12-year retrospective study

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 809-815

  Techakehakij, Win ^a   Arora, Rajin ^b  

^a Lampang Regional Hospital   (Thailand)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Education; Physicians; Rural

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THAILAND;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND;

EID: 85021842791     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czx026     Document Type: Article

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