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| Title |
Perceived barriers and motivating factors influencing student midwives’ acceptance of rural postings in Ghana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Resources for Health, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-4491-10-17 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jody R Lori, Sarah D Rominski, Mawuli Gyakobo, Eunice W Muriu, Nakua E Kweku, Peter Agyei-Baffour |
| Abstract |
Research on the mal-distribution of health care workers has focused mainly on physicians and nurses. To meet the Millennium Development Goal Five and the reproductive needs of all women, it is predicted that an additional 334,000 midwives are needed. Despite the on-going efforts to increase this cadre of health workers there are still glaring gaps and inequities in distribution. The objectives of this study are to determine the perceived barriers and motivators influencing final year midwifery students' acceptance of rural postings in Ghana, West Africa. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 29% |
| Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 86% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 163 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 160 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 35 | 21% |
| Lecturer | 22 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 9% |
| Researcher | 12 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 24 | 15% |
| Unknown | 49 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 44 | 27% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 3% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 18 | 11% |
| Unknown | 54 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 13 August 2012.
All research outputs
#7,119,031
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#746
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,216
of 178,824 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#6
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
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 is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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