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| Title |
Placement, support, and retention of health professionals: national, cross-sectional findings from medical and dental community service officers in South Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-12-14 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Abigail M Hatcher, Michael Onah, Saul Kornik, Julia Peacocke, Stephen Reid |
| Abstract |
In South Africa, community service following medical training serves as a mechanism for equitable distribution of health professionals and their professional development. Community service officers are required to contribute a year towards serving in a public health facility while receiving supervision and remuneration. Although the South African community service programme has been in effect since 1998, little is known about how placement and practical support occur, or how community service may impact future retention of health professionals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| South Africa | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 92% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 158 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 152 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 46 | 29% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 12% |
| Researcher | 15 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 32 | 20% |
| Unknown | 28 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 49 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 8 | 5% |
| Psychology | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 13% |
| Unknown | 34 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 October 2021.
All research outputs
#3,601,411
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#433
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,846
of 235,082 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#8
of 19 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,261 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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