Economics of health professional education and careers : insights from a literature review / Barbara McPake, Allison Squires, Agya Mahat, and Edson C. Araujo.
The formation of health professionals is critical for the health system to function and to achieve its universal health coverage (UHC) goals, and this is well recognized by the majority of governments that plan to ensure enough training places and aim to regulate in order to ensure quality. But the...
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World Bank Group,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Abbreviation; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Historical Trends and Globalization; Chapter 3 Specialty Choice among Health Professionals and Its Health Labor Market Determinants; Trends in Specialty Preference; Student Characteristics; Specialty Characteristics; School Characteristics; Notes; Chapter 4 The Value of Health Professional Education; Alternative Cadres; Estimated Rates of Return to Health Professional Education; Chapter 5 The Market for Health Professional Education.
- Linked Markets: Health Professional Education and Health CarePrivatization of Health Professional Education in LMICs; Notes; Chapter 6 Discussion; Research Implications; Policy Implications; Appendix A Literature Search Strategy; Appendix B Coverage of the Literature in Relation to Private and Social Perspectives on the Rate of Return; Appendix C Estimates of Private Rates of Return and Net Present Value; References; Boxes; 1.1 Market Failures in Health Worker Labor Markets; 3.1 Effect of General Practitioners' Reimbursement on Supply in the United Kingdom.
- 5.1 How Demographics and Positioning of the Nursing Profession Can Interrelate, Israel5.2 Market Failure in Nepal; Figures; 1.1 The Interaction between Education Systems, Labor Markets, and Health Systems; 3.1 The Bland-Meurer Model of Primary Care Career Choice for Physicians; B3.1.1a Proportion of Graduating Cohorts in U.K. Medical Schools Choosing General Practice; B3.1.1b General Practitioners' Annual Income; 4.1 The Hours-adjusted Internal Rate of Return on Additional Training for Five Surgical Specialties and Primary Care Medicine.
- 5.1 Interrelationships between Health Professional Job Market and Health Professional Education Market5.2 Founding Dates of Medical Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sector; Tables; A.1 Search Terms; A.2 MESH Terms; Back Cover.