Retaining rural doctors: Doctors' preferences for rural medical workforce incentives

Jinhu Li; Anthony Scott; Matthew McGrail; John Humphreys; Julia Witt

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Retaining rural doctors: Doctors' preferences for rural medical workforce incentives

Jinhu Li, Anthony Scott, Matthew McGrail, John Humphreys, Julia Witt

Social Science & Medicine | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.053

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Anthony Scott Author Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work, as part of the "Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)" longitudinal survey of doctors, was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Health Services Research Grant (454799) and the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. The findings and views in this paper are those of the authors alone. We thank the doctors who gave their valuable time to participate in MABEL, and the other members of the MABEL team for data cleaning and comments on drafts of this paper.