Incentivizing Rural Work Preferences Among Specialist Physicians: Protocol for a Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Retaining specialist physicians in rural parts of India poses a fundamental challenge, which affects the health care system's functionality and provision of standard health care services. There has been an acute shortfall of specialist physicians in the fields of medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery at rural community health centers. This necessitates urgent policy focus to address the shortages and design effective rural retention strategies. In this study, which uses a discrete choice experiment (DCE), individuals choose from multiple-choice preferences that resemble hypothetical job descriptions.

Objective

DCEs are a quantitative approach to assessing several aspects of job selection. This study aims to develop a detailed plan of a DCE m

SUBMITTER: Joshi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11667135 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature