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Table 1 Search terms applied in the scoping review

From: Factors associated with increasing rural doctor supply in Asia-Pacific LMICs: a scoping review

 

Key concepts

Related keywords

Related subject term

1

Population

Doctors; general practitioner; medical practitioner; medical graduate; physician; primary care physician; medical officer; medical intern

General practitioners; family physicians; primary care physicians; medical staff; medical graduate; medical practitioner; medical intern; health personnel; health workshop; internship and residency

2

Concept: exposures of interest

Recruit; recruiting; recruitment; retain; retention; turnover; attrition; career; work location; practice location; geographic distribution; geographic imbalance; shortage

Career choice; job satisfaction; motivation; personnel development; choice behavior; physician incentive scheme

3

Concept: location of practice

In rural or remote or non-metropolitan or non-urban or underserved or underserviced or regional

Rural health services; rural health; professional practice location; medically underserved area; rural population

3

Context

Each of the low and middle-income countries in Asia-Pacific region, as defined by the World Bank that include South Asia as well as East Asia and Pacific [22]: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, DPR Korea, Lao, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Island, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Island, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam

Developing countries; low and middle-income countries; Asia; Asia-Pacific; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Western Pacific; Pacific Islands; Oceania