Preferences for working in rural clinics among trainee health professionals in Uganda: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health facilities require teams of health workers with complementary skills and responsibilities to efficiently provide quality care. In low-income countries, failure to attract and retain health workers in rural areas reduces population access to health services and undermines facility performance, resulting in poor health outcomes. It is important that governments consider health worker preferences in crafting policies to address attraction and retention in underserved areas.

Methods

We investigated preferences for job characteristics among final year medical, nursing, pharmacy, and laboratory students at select universities in Uganda. Participants were administered a cadre-specific discrete choice experiment that elicited preferences for attributes of potential

SUBMITTER: Rockers PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3444383 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature