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Table 1 Attributes and attribute levels

From: Incentives for non-physician health professionals to work in the rural and remote areas of Mozambique—a discrete choice experiment for eliciting job preferences

Attribute

Levels

Description

Place of work

Rural

District capital

Urban II

Provincial capital

Urban I

Maputo City

Monthly salary

MZM 20 000

Base calculated as the mean official minimum monthly salary rates for N1 and N2 health professionals

MZM 30 000

Base plus 50%

MZM 40 000

Base plus 100%

Housing

No housing

No house is provided—housing is considered as a worker’s responsibility to be paid for at a worker’s own cost

Government housing

Basic government housing is provided

Access to a loan for the purchase of a house or land

No access to a housing/land loan

No support provided to access a loan for the purchase of a house or land

Access to housing/land loan provided

Access to a loan for the purchase of a house or land is provided

Formal education providing opportunities for promotion

No formal education offered

No opportunities for formal education are offered

Formal education offered after 5 years of work

Opportunities for formal education, which may lead to a promotion to a higher level within the same occupational area, are offered after 5 years of work

Skills development

No in-service training

No in-service training offered

Regular in-service training

On-going, short-term training courses and regular supportive supervision are provided

Availability of equipment and medicine

Inadequate

Medical equipment, drugs and facility standards do not allow the provision of a basic package of health services

Adequate

Medical equipment, drugs and facility standards allow the provision of a basic package of health services

Private practice

Private practice is only allowed after the official work hours at public facility

Public sector health workers are only allowed to work in the private sector after the official work hours at public health facilities.

Part-time private practice is allowed

Public sector heath workers are allowed to practice in the private sector on a part-time basis (maximum 20 h per week).