Job preferences of nurses and midwives for taking up a rural job in Peru: a discrete choice experiment.

Robust evidence on interventions to improve the shortage of health workers in rural areas is needed. We assessed stated factors that would attract short-term contract nurses and midwives to work in a rural area of Peru.A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted to evaluate the job preferences...

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Main Authors: Luis Huicho, J Jaime Miranda, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Claudia Lema, Andrés G Lescano, Mylene Lagarde, Duane Blaauw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3527463?pdf=render