Case Study of the Counterpart Technical Support Policy to Improve Rural...
This study systematically evaluated a program to improve rural health services and reduce inequality in urban and rural services by requiring urban doctors to spend time in rural hospitals. The...
View ArticleRetention of the Rural Allied Health Workforce in New South Wales: A...
Policy initiatives to improve retention of the rural health workforce have relied primarily on evidence for rural doctors, most of whom practice under a private business model. Much of the literature...
View ArticleFirst Steps Towards Interprofessional Health Practice in Tanzania: An...
In this article, the authors describe a pilot program developed by a Tanzania university to train its professional students (dentists, doctors, environmental health officers, nurses, and pharmacists)...
View ArticleNourishing Networks: An Interprofessional Learning Model and Its Application...
This article describes a model for interprofessional learning developed to address the barriers related to the delivery of interprofessional education in the rural health setting in Australia across a...
View ArticleJob Preferences of Nurses and Midwives for Taking Up a Rural Job in Peru: A...
A discrete choice experiment was conducted to evaluate the job preferences of nurses and midwives currently working on a short-term contract in the public sector in Ayacucho, Peru to assess factors...
View ArticleCost-Effectiveness Analysis of Human Resources Policy Interventions to...
Recent policy recommendations have called for increased research efforts to inform the design of cost-effective interventions to address the shortage of health workers in rural areas. This paper takes...
View ArticleRedistributive Effects of the National Health Insurance on Physicians in...
This study examines the effects of implementing national health insurance on the problem of geographic maldistribution of health providers in Taiwan. [from abstract]
View ArticleHow to Conduct a Discrete Choice Experiment for Health Workforce Recruitment...
This guide aims to provide easy-to-read information and step-by-step advice on a quantitative research method that can help identify appropriate policy responses to health workforce shortages in remote...
View ArticleRecruitment and Retention of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists in...
is study aims to broaden the understanding of factors associated with recruitment and retention of occupational therapists and physiotherapists in rural regions, through a synthesis of evidence from...
View ArticleCareer Choices and What Influences Nepali Medical Students and Young Doctors:...
The aim of this study was to understand medical career choices and the factors that influence medical students’ and young doctors’ career choices in Nepal and to understand what would encourage them to...
View ArticleAdditional Years of Australian Rural Clinical School Undergraduate Training...
The objective of this study was to understand the influence of the number of years spent at an Australian rural clinical school on graduates’ current, preferred current and intended location for rural...
View ArticleChallenges of Working in Underserved Areas: A Qualitative Exploratory Study...
This study aimed to elucidate the views of staff nurses working in underserved areas, directors of health facilities in underserved areas and key informants from the policy and education arena on...
View ArticleImmersing Undergraduates into an Interprofessional Longitudinal Rural Placement
This article evaluates an Australian program that placed students from different health programs together, in a rural environment, for one or two semesters of the academic year to promote...
View ArticleAdvanced Rural Skills Training: Are Recently Qualified GPs Using Their...
This study aimed to: describe where general practitioners (GPs) practice in the 5 years after advanced rural skills training; describe the proportion of doctors using their advanced skills; measure...
View ArticlePrimary Health Care and General Practice Attachment: Establishing an...
This report describes the steps taken by a Greek medical school to establish and maintain a rural primary health care teaching network in order to implement community oriented primary health care and...
View ArticleLongitudinal Study of Rural Health Workforce in Five Countries in China:...
The authors conducted a longitudinal study to explore the current situation and track the future evolution of the rural healthcare workforce, specifically village doctors, in China. [adapted from...
View ArticleFactors that Influence Midwifery Students in Ghana When Deciding Where to...
This quantitative research study used a computerized structured survey containing a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to quantify the importance of different incentives and policies to encourage service...
View ArticleDifferences in Preferences for Rural Job Postings between Nursing Students...
A discrete choice experiment was conducted to investigate preferences for job characteristics among nursing students and practicing nurses to determine how these groups vary in their respective...
View ArticleFly-in Fly-out Nursing: Is It for Us? New Graduate Nurses' Perspectives
Fly-in/Fly-out models of health care for rural-remote communities are currently the focus of evaluation and debate, as the health inequalities of rural and remote communities continue to challenge both...
View ArticleWhy Would I Go There? Motivating Workers to Take and Keep Jobs in Rural Areas
Given the complexity of the social, professional and economic factors that influence motivation, this article addresses how institutions make rural job postings more attractive and how they can...
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