Human Resources for Health

Table 2 Correlations of medical and nursing expectations with various economic and health environments and student background factors

From: Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies

	Medical expectation	Nursing expectation
GDP	− .270^a	.190
Health expenditure	− .162	.408^c
Daily salary	− .080	.094
Daily work hours	.370^b	− .280^a
Injuries	− .216	− .004
Professional density	− .327^b	.366^b
Value income	.255^a	− .135
Girl preference	.275^a	− .060
High SES preference	.112	− .114
High academic preference	.062	.053

GDP gross domestic product, SES socioeconomic status
a = p < .05; b = p < .01; c = p < .001

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