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| Title |
Conceptualizing the impacts of dual practice on the retention of public sector specialists - evidence from South Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-13-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John Ashmore, Lucy Gilson |
| Abstract |
'Dual practice', or multiple job holding, generally involves public sector-based health workers taking additional work in the private sector. This form of the practice is purported to help retain public health care workers in low and middle-income countries' public sectors through additional wage incentives. There has been little conceptual or empirical development of the relationship between dual practice and retention. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 3 | 27% |
| Turkey | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 6 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Scientists | 2 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 145 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 141 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 34 | 23% |
| Researcher | 23 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 24 | 17% |
| Unknown | 29 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 13 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 11% |
| Unknown | 32 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 11 March 2016.
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#4,754,411
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Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#549
of 1,261 outputs
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#61,880
of 360,114 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#12
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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 56% of its peers.
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