Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Doctors and nurses play a fundamental role in maintaining global health systems and achieving universal health care coverage. However, significant shortages persist, and little is known about the popularity of these careers among young people in various economies or the relative impact of personal inputs and contextual factors.

Methods

Using data from the large-scale Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018, we showed the recent distribution of adolescents' medical (doctor) and nursing career expectations in 61 economies. With multilevel logistic and hierarchical linear regression, we examined the relative importance of economic indicators, health work conditions, and personal background factors in affecting adolescents' health career expectations

SUBMITTER: Guo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10183684 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature