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Table 4 Basic health unit personnel preferences regarding contracts

From: Contracting private sector providers for public sector health services in Jalisco, Mexico: perspectives of system actors

Preference of health unit personnel regarding contracts

% Basic health unit personnel

 

Total

Physicians

Nurses

Others

Maintain indefinitely

17

21

22

13

Maintain until finding other job

1

 

4

 

Obtain a permanent position with the State Health Secretary

67

70

55

77

Obtain a permanent position in another public institution

2

 

4

3

Work independently, in profession

1

3

  

Other

2

3

4

 

Don't know; no response

10

3

11

7

Total

100

100

100

100

  1. Source: Authors, with data from the health services providers' questionnaire. Research project on public-private interactions in the Mexican health sector.