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Migration of South African health workers: the extent to which financial considerations influence internal flows and external movements

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (79th percentile)

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Title
Migration of South African health workers: the extent to which financial considerations influence internal flows and external movements
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-297
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Authors

Gavin George, Millicent Atujuna, Jeff Gow

Abstract

The loss of human resource capacity has had a severe impact on the health system in South Africa. This study investigates the causes of migration focussing on the role of salaries and benefits. Health professionals from public, private and non-governmental (NGO) health facilities located in selected peri-urban and urban areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa were surveyed about their current positions and attitudes toward migration.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 127 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 24%
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Other 21 16%
Unknown 32 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 31%
Social Sciences 17 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 8%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 35 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 16 August 2019.
All research outputs
#5,291,077
of 25,271,884 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,553
of 8,579 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,134
of 204,339 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#21
of 100 outputs
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