Financial incentives as a governmental tool to bridge the medical manpower gap between Israel’s center and periphery

Abstract One of the major health disparities between Israel’s center and periphery relates to the physician to population ratio. To overcome it, the Israeli government launched a financial incentive program in 2011, in an attempt to encourage physicians to work in the periphery and in specialties ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eyal Jacobson, Vered Ezra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13584-019-0344-2