Background：There is a deficiency of healthcare administrators in China as compared with other coun-tries; furthermore, the distribution is unequal. To inform an effective policy intervention, it is crucial to understand healthcare administration students’ career decision-making. This study aims to investigate the undergraduate students’ stated preferences when choosing a job.
Methods：A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted among a population-based multistage sample of 668 final year undergraduate healthcare administration students during April to June 2017 in eight universities of China to elicit their job preferences. Attributes include location, monthly income, bianzhi (which refers to the established posts and can be loosely regarded as state administrative staffing), training and career development opportunity, working environment and workload. Conditional and mixed logit models were used to ana-lyze the relative importance of job attributes.
Results：All six attributes were statistically significant with the expected sign and demonstrated the existence of preference heterogeneity. Monthly income, workload and working environment were of most concern to healthcare administration students when deciding their future. Among the presented attributes bianzhi was of the least concern. Sub-group analysis showed that students who have an urban background and/or with higher annual family incomes were willing to pay more for working in the city. In addition, students from western and middle universities valued bianzhi higher than students from eastern universities.
作者：Liu, Shimeng Li, Shunping Li, Yujia Wang, Haipeng Zhao, Jingjing Chen, Gang Reddy, Sakamuri V
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