Preferences for working in rural clinics among trainee health professionals in Uganda: a discrete choice experiment

Preferences for working in rural clinics among trainee health professionals in Uganda: a discrete choice experiment

BACKGROUND Health facilities require teams of health workers with complementary skills and responsibilities to efficiently provide quality care. In low-income countries, failure to attract and retain health workers in rural areas reduces population access to health services and undermines facility performance, resulting in poor health outcomes. It is important that governments consider health w...

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Eliciting Preferences for Health Insurance in Iran Using Discrete Choice Experiment Analysis

Background The preferences of Iranians concerning the attributes of health insurance benefit packages are not well studied. This study aimed to elicit health insurance preferences among insured people in Iran during 2016.   Methods A mixed method...

Addressing Health Workforce Distribution Concerns: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Develop Rural Retention Strategies in Cameroon

Background Nearly every nation in the world faces shortages of health workers in remote areas. Cameroon is no exception to this. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is currently considering several rural retention strategies to motivate qualified health personnel to practice in remote rural areas.   Methods To better calibrate these mechanisms and to develop evidence-based retention strategies...

Developing attributes and levels for a discrete choice experiment on basic health insurance in Iran

Background: Nonmarket stated preferences valuation, especially discrete choice experiments (DCEs), is one of the commonly used techniques in the health sector. The primary purpose of this approach is to help select attributes and attributes-levels that are able to properly describe health care products or services. This study aimed at developing attributes and attributes-levels for basic health...