October 20, 2025Health Policy and PlanningOpen Access

Job preferences and trade-offs in rural health workforce retention：A discrete choice experiment from western China

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Discrete choice experiment explores health workforce dynamics in rural China, indicating key job preferences.

Bianzhi significantly drives job preferences, where practitioners would sacrifice 18.2% of income for it.
Female workers are 1.189 times more sensitive to workplace proximity compared to male counterparts.
Policy simulations show that combining Bianzhi with children's education support is more effective than salary alone.
The study urges tailored healthcare workforce strategies in rural areas, incorporating gender-sensitive and family-friendly policies.

Chen et al. (2025) studied this question.

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