Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment

Timor-Leste built its health workforce up from extremely low levels after its war of independence, with the assistance of Cuban training, but faces challenges as the first cohorts of doctors will shortly be freed from their contracts with government. Retaining doctors, nurses and midwives in remote...

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Main Authors:	Smitz, Marc-Francois, Witter, Sophie, Lemiere, Christophe, Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu, Lievens, Tomas, Zaman, Rashid U., Engelhardt, Kay, Hou, Xiaohui
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	PLoS 2019
Subjects:	HEALTH WORKERS MOTIVATION WAGES WORKING CONDITIONS HOUSING DOCTORS TRAINING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31378

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spelling	okr-10986-313782021-05-25T10:54:37Z Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment Smitz, Marc-Francois Witter, Sophie Lemiere, Christophe Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Lievens, Tomas Zaman, Rashid U. Engelhardt, Kay Hou, Xiaohui HEALTH WORKERS MOTIVATION WAGES WORKING CONDITIONS HOUSING DOCTORS TRAINING Timor-Leste built its health workforce up from extremely low levels after its war of independence, with the assistance of Cuban training, but faces challenges as the first cohorts of doctors will shortly be freed from their contracts with government. Retaining doctors, nurses and midwives in remote areas requires a good understanding of health worker preferences. The article reports on a discrete choice experiment (DCE) carried out amongst 441 health workers, including 173 doctors, 150 nurses and 118 midwives. Qualitative methods were conducted during the design phase. The attributes which emerged were wages, skills upgrading/specialisation, location, working conditions, transportation and housing. 2019-03-12T20:25:14Z 2019-03-12T20:25:14Z 2016-11-15 Journal Article PLoS ONE http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31378 CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 World Bank PLoS Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Timor-Leste
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topic	HEALTH WORKERS MOTIVATION WAGES WORKING CONDITIONS HOUSING DOCTORS TRAINING
spellingShingle	HEALTH WORKERS MOTIVATION WAGES WORKING CONDITIONS HOUSING DOCTORS TRAINING Smitz, Marc-Francois Witter, Sophie Lemiere, Christophe Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Lievens, Tomas Zaman, Rashid U. Engelhardt, Kay Hou, Xiaohui Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment
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description	Timor-Leste built its health workforce up from extremely low levels after its war of independence, with the assistance of Cuban training, but faces challenges as the first cohorts of doctors will shortly be freed from their contracts with government. Retaining doctors, nurses and midwives in remote areas requires a good understanding of health worker preferences. The article reports on a discrete choice experiment (DCE) carried out amongst 441 health workers, including 173 doctors, 150 nurses and 118 midwives. Qualitative methods were conducted during the design phase. The attributes which emerged were wages, skills upgrading/specialisation, location, working conditions, transportation and housing.
format	Journal Article
author	Smitz, Marc-Francois Witter, Sophie Lemiere, Christophe Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Lievens, Tomas Zaman, Rashid U. Engelhardt, Kay Hou, Xiaohui
author_facet	Smitz, Marc-Francois Witter, Sophie Lemiere, Christophe Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Lievens, Tomas Zaman, Rashid U. Engelhardt, Kay Hou, Xiaohui
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title	Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment
title_short	Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment
title_full	Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment
title_fullStr	Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment
title_full_unstemmed	Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment
title_sort	understanding health workers' job preferences to improve rural retention in timor-leste : findings from a discrete choice experiment
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Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment

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