Systematic and meta-based evaluation on job satisfaction of village doctors: An urgent need for solution issue.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Village doctors are the health "gatekeepers" of rural residents in most developing countries. They undertake a series of strenuous but pivotal missions, including prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of complicated diseases, sanitation services and management, and preventive healthcare and education tasks. Hence, it is of great importance to evaluate the village doctors' job satisfaction status, which is one of the most important indicators that can reflect the current working state, to provide guidelines for the healthcare policies.

Methods

Literature search was conducted in 7 authoritative databases, including PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). Experts in the field of social medicine were consulted to achieve supp

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9433829 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature