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Policy Options to Attract Food Medical Students to Agricultural China Based on Discrete Choice Experiment

1Kaiyuan Zhou, 2Cheng Li and 1Min Yu
1Department of Food Health Services and the Ministry of Education, Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, Fourth Military Food Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province,
2Department of food medical Affairs, No. 413 Hospital of PLA, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China
Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology  2016  4:321-326
http://dx.doi.org/10.19026/ajfst.11.2417  |  © The Author(s) 2016
Received: June ‎8, ‎2015  |  Accepted: ‎July ‎8, ‎2015  |  Published: June 05, 2016
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Abstract

Food medical students with agricultural background from ordinary colleges were most likely to be attracted by current incentives in China. And the three most important factors they consider in accepting postings to agricultural areas were money incentive, housing provided and possibilities of more further education. The aim of this study was to examine the importance of different attributes when the final year food medical students from different qualified colleges in China made job choices according to the present incentives. Information were gathered from 51 food medical students in a famous “211” college and 99 food medical students in an ordinary college. Food medical students in ordinary colleges had higher preference for housing provided and the possibility of more further education.

Keywords:

Discrete choice experiment, food medical students, recruitment,

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