Rural job preferences of graduate class medical students in Ethiopia-a discrete choice experiment (DCE).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human resource is one of the health system's building blocks, which ultimately leads to improved health status, equity, and efficiency. However, human resources in the health sector are characterized by high attrition, distributional imbalance, and geographic inequalities in urban and rural settings.

Methods

An discrete choice experiment (DCE) with 16 choice tasks with two blocks containing five attributes (salary, housing, drug and medical equipment, year of experience before study leave, management support, and workload) were conducted. A latent class and mixed logit model were fitted to estimate the rural job preferences and heterogeneity. Furthermore, the relative importance, willingness to accept and marginal choice probabilities were calculated. Finally, the

SUBMITTER: Engidaw M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10009985 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature