Work Preferences in Rural Health Job Posting Among Medical Interns in a Lower Middle-Income Country-a Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Timely empirical evidence is important in the success of health systems, and such evidence is necessary for informed policy making to address inequity in the health workforce. Literature is ripe with incentives that affect recruitment and retention of physicians in rural and remote areas, but such data in still lacking in the Philippine setting. Discrete choice experiment is one methodology utilized by the World Health Organization which provides both qualitative and quantitative information to aid policy makers in health human resource management.

Methods

The study utilized a discrete choice experiment involving three phases: 1) identification of incentives and levels using key informant interviews and focus group discussions, 2) selection of scenarios utilizin

SUBMITTER: Migrino JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295858 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature