http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk @RESYSTresearch Rural origin and the retention of professional nurses in rural areas: a five-year follow-up study Duane Blaauw, Prudence Ditlopo, Mylene Lagarde Centre for Health Policy & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, International Health Economics Conference, Milan, July 2015 http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk @RESYSTresearch
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Rural origin and the retention of professional nurses in rural areas: a five-year follow-up study
Duane Blaauw, Prudence Ditlopo, Mylene Lagarde Centre for Health Policy & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, International Health Economics Conference, Milan, July 2015
http://resyst.lshtm.ac.uk@RESYSTresearch
Motivation
Shortage of health workers in rural areas (Dussault & Franceschini, 2007; Serneels et al 2007)
Systematic reviews of successful interventions (Laven, 2003; Wilson et al, 2009; Grobler et al, 2009)
Rural origin strongly associated with rural practice
But evidence mostly for doctors from HIC (Rabinowitz, 1999; Woloschuk, 2002)
Study objective: To evaluate if rural origin is associated with rural retention
in a cohort of professional nurses in South Africa
“Rural setting is a consistent finding in several observational studies. It appears to be the single factor most strongly associated with rural practice” (Cochrane Review, 2009)
Methods South African nursing cohort study
7 nurse training institutions Gauteng and North West provinces
Increasing move to the private sector and out of health care facilities
But higher rural retention and job satisfaction than expected
Rural origin and rural training significantly associated with rural retention
Confirm policy implications for student selection and placement of training institutions
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