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| Title |
Is there really a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Has the Occupational Specific Dispensation, as a mechanism to attract and retain health workers in South Africa, leveled the playing field?
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-613 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gavin George, Bruce Rhodes |
| Abstract |
South Africa is experiencing a critical shortage of human resources for health (HRH) at a time when the population and the burden of ill-health, primarily due to HIV, AIDS and TB, are on the increase. This shortage is particularly severe within the nursing profession, which has witnessed significant emigration due to poor domestic working conditions and remuneration. Salaries and other benefits are an obvious pull factor towards foreign countries, given the often extreme international wage differentials. The introduction of the Occupation Specific Dispensation (OSD) in 2007 sought to improve the public services' ability to attract and retain employees thereby reducing incentives to emigrate. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 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 | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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 % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 162 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 18% |
| Lecturer | 23 | 14% |
| Researcher | 16 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 29 | 18% |
| Unknown | 42 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 38 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 11% |
| Unknown | 44 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 04 September 2012.
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#12,665,716
of 22,673,450 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8,646
of 14,755 outputs
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#87,490
of 166,280 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#170
of 335 outputs
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