Job incentives influencing health professionals working in rural and remote areas in Thailand: finding from discrete choice experiment to policy recommendation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This research aims to understand job incentives of health professionals who work in rural and remote areas, which could lead to the further development of policy proposals.

Methods

The study design has been applied discrete choice experiment (DCE) to determine attribute preferences of: 1) doctors, dentists, and pharmacists, and 2) nurses and interdisciplinary teams. Four areas in northern Thailand were purposively selected. To determine the attributes and levels, a qualitative method was employed. An orthogonal array was adopted to produce 16 options for categorizing the employment preferences of each person. Conditional and mixed logit regressions were used to examine the major incentives influencing health workforce decision-making. In addition, willingness to p

SUBMITTER: Phanthunane P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11829364 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature