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Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment
BACKGROUND: Pharmacists are a crucial part of the health workforce and play an important role in achieving universal health coverage. In China, pharmaceutical human resources are in short supply, and the distribution is unequal. This study aimed to identify the key job characteristics that influence...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34229701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00626-8 |
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author | Liu, Ping Liu, Shimeng Gong, Tiantian Li, Quan Chen, Gang Li, Shunping |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pharmacists are a crucial part of the health workforce and play an important role in achieving universal health coverage. In China, pharmaceutical human resources are in short supply, and the distribution is unequal. This study aimed to identify the key job characteristics that influence the job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students and to elicit the relative importance of different job characteristics to shed light on future policy interventions. METHODS: A discrete choice experiment was conducted to assess the job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students from 6 provinces in mainland China. A face-to-face interview was used to collect data. Conditional logit and mixed logit models were used to analyse data, and the final model was chosen according to the model fit statistics. A series of policy simulations was also conducted. RESULTS: In total, 581 respondents completed the questionnaire, and 500 respondents who passed the internal consistency test were analysed. All attributes were statistically significant except for open management. Monthly income and work location were most important to respondents, followed by work unit (which refers to the nature of the workplace) and years to promotion. There was preference heterogeneity among respondents, e.g., male students preferred open management, and female students preferred jobs in public institutions. Furthermore, students with an urban background or from a single-child family placed higher value on a job in the city compared to their counterparts. CONCLUSION: The heterogeneity of attributes showed the complexity of job preferences. Both monetary and nonmonetary job characteristics significantly influenced the job preferences of pharmacy students in China. A more effective policy intervention to attract graduates to work in rural areas should consider both incentives on the job itself and the background of pharmacy school graduates. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12960-021-00626-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-82593442021-07-06 Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment Liu, Ping Liu, Shimeng Gong, Tiantian Li, Quan Chen, Gang Li, Shunping Hum Resour Health Research BACKGROUND: Pharmacists are a crucial part of the health workforce and play an important role in achieving universal health coverage. In China, pharmaceutical human resources are in short supply, and the distribution is unequal. This study aimed to identify the key job characteristics that influence the job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students and to elicit the relative importance of different job characteristics to shed light on future policy interventions. METHODS: A discrete choice experiment was conducted to assess the job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students from 6 provinces in mainland China. A face-to-face interview was used to collect data. Conditional logit and mixed logit models were used to analyse data, and the final model was chosen according to the model fit statistics. A series of policy simulations was also conducted. RESULTS: In total, 581 respondents completed the questionnaire, and 500 respondents who passed the internal consistency test were analysed. All attributes were statistically significant except for open management. Monthly income and work location were most important to respondents, followed by work unit (which refers to the nature of the workplace) and years to promotion. There was preference heterogeneity among respondents, e.g., male students preferred open management, and female students preferred jobs in public institutions. Furthermore, students with an urban background or from a single-child family placed higher value on a job in the city compared to their counterparts. CONCLUSION: The heterogeneity of attributes showed the complexity of job preferences. Both monetary and nonmonetary job characteristics significantly influenced the job preferences of pharmacy students in China. A more effective policy intervention to attract graduates to work in rural areas should consider both incentives on the job itself and the background of pharmacy school graduates. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12960-021-00626-8. BioMed Central 2021-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8259344/ /pubmed/34229701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00626-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Liu, Ping Liu, Shimeng Gong, Tiantian Li, Quan Chen, Gang Li, Shunping Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment |
title | Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment |
title_full | Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment |
title_fullStr | Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment |
title_full_unstemmed | Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment |
title_short | Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment |
title_sort | job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in china: a discrete choice experiment |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34229701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00626-8 |
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