Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacists are a crucial part of the health workforce and play an important role in achieving universal health coverage. In China, pharmaceutical human resources are in short supply, and the distribution is unequal. This study aimed to identify the key job characteristics that influence the job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students and to elicit the relative importance of different job characteristics to shed light on future policy interventions.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment was conducted to assess the job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students from 6 provinces in mainland China. A face-to-face interview was used to collect data. Conditional logit and mixed logit models were used to analyse data, and the final model was chosen according t

SUBMITTER: Liu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8259344 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature