Job preferences of medical and nursing students seeking employment in rural China: a discrete choice experiment
| العنوان: | Job preferences of medical and nursing students seeking employment in rural China: a discrete choice experiment |
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| المؤلفون: | Cunrui Huang, Meiling Bao |
| المصدر: | BMC Medical Education BMC Medical Education, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | BioMed Central, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Employment, China, Students, Medical, education, lcsh:Medicine, Sample (statistics), Health workers, Choice Behavior, Education, 03 medical and health sciences, Medical and nursing students, 0302 clinical medicine, Nursing, Willingness to pay, Mixed logit, Surveys and Questionnaires, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Salary, lcsh:LC8-6691, Medical education, Government, lcsh:Special aspects of education, Career Choice, 030503 health policy & services, lcsh:R, General Medicine, Recruitment policy, Incentive, Discrete choice experiment, Job preferences, Students, Nursing, Rural Health Services, Rural area, 0305 other medical science, Seeking employment, Psychology, Research Article |
| الوصف: | Background China has a shortage of health workers in rural areas, but little research exists on policies that attract qualified medical and nursing students to rural locations. We conducted a discrete choice experiment to determine how specific incentives would be valued by final–year students in a medical university in Guizhou Province, China. Methods Attributes of potential jobs were developed through the literature review, semi–structured interviews, and a pilot survey. Forty choice sets were developed using a fractional factorial design. A mixed logit model was used to estimate the relative strength of the attributes. Willingness to pay and uptake rates for a defined job were also calculated based on the mixed logit estimates. Results The final sample comprised 787 medical and nursing students. The statistically significant results indicated “Bianzhi” (the number of personnel allocated to each employer by the government) and physical conflicts between doctors and patients were two of the most important non-monetary job characteristics that incentivized both medical and nursing students. Policy simulation suggested that respondents were most sensitive to a salary increase, and the effect of incentive packages was stronger for students with a rural family background. Conclusions Strategies for patient–doctor relationships, Bianzhi and salary should be considered to attract final–year medical and nursing students to work in rural China. In addition, specific recruitment policy designs tailored for students with different majors and backgrounds should be taken into account. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1472-6920 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::08ce4144b66a95749fb9712789cc7178 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7934374 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....08ce4144b66a95749fb9712789cc7178 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14726920 |
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