Job preferences for healthcare administration students in China: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a deficiency of healthcare administrators in China as compared with other countries; furthermore, the distribution is unequal. To inform an effective policy intervention, it is crucial to understand healthcare administration students' career decision-making. This study aims to investigate the undergraduate students' stated preferences when choosing a job.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted among a population-based multistage sample of 668 final year undergraduate healthcare administration students during April to June 2017 in eight universities of China to elicit their job preferences. Attributes include location, monthly income, bianzhi (which refers to the established posts and can be loosely regarded as state administrative staffi

SUBMITTER: Liu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347231 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature