Investigating the role of social preferences in health providers' decisions in South Africa.

这项MRC/ESRC博士后奖学金将提供出版一系列关于南非护士职业选择的决定因素的论文，以及一些政策干预措施的预期效果，以吸引她们到农村工作。这些论文本质上是定量的，将讨论经济问题以及与政策相关的问题。这项研究的结果还将通过在专业会议和讲习班上的演讲、面对面会议、分发政策简报和在有关网站上公布等方式，直接传播给决策者和公众。这项研究最终应该有助于改善医疗服务不足人群的健康状况，为设计有效的政策提供见解，以增加护理覆盖范围。该奖学金的最终目标将是提出一项研究建议，研究利他主义和其他激励因素在医生与病人的关系中所起的作用。这项建议的编制将得到一系列理论和实证研究方法培训单元的支持，并将制订一个小型试点项目，以测试一些可能的工具。

This MRC/ESRC post-doctoral fellowship will provide for the publication of a series of papers on the determinants of nurses‘ career choices in South Africa, and the expected effects of some policy interventions to attract them to rural posts. Quantitative in nature, these papers will address economic questions as well as policy-relevant ones. The results of this research will also be disseminated directly to policy-makers and the public through a combination of presentations at professional meetings and workshops, face-to-face meetings, distribution of policy briefs and posting on relevant websites. The research should ultimately contribute to improving health outcomes in medically underserved populations, by providing insight into the design of efficient policies to increase nursing coverage. A final goal of the fellowship will be to produce a research proposal to look at the role of altruism and other incentives in the decisions made by doctors in their relationship to their patients. The production of this proposal will be supported by a series of training modules in theoretical and empirical research methods, and the development of a small pilot project destined to test some possible tools.