Influence of colors in distractor videos on the recording of cortical auditory evoked potentials.

The density of the health workforce is directly related to the scope of health services and key health outcomes, such as maternal, infant and under-five child mortality rates (Robinson and Wharrad, ; Anand and Bärnighausen, ; Chen ., ). Nevertheless, many countries face challenges in training, recruiting, and deploying their health workforce (Araújo and Maeda, ). Among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, Türkiye has the lowest number of physicians per 100,000 population (‘Health resources - Doctors - OECD Data’, ). In addition, there is a marked geographical imbalance in workforce distribution. Despite policies such as increased physician training, compulsory service, and financial incentives, these challenges persist (Yildirim ., ). Physician migration further exacerbates the problem. Over the past decade, the number of physicians obtaining a ‘Certificate of Good Standing’ to work abroad has increased markedly, rising from 59 to over 3,000 annually (‘X, Turkish Medical Association’, ; ‘Artı Gerçek’, ). A recent multicenter study reported that 71% of final-year medical students are definitely or potentially planning to work abroad (Eser ., ). In Türkiye, public health specialization is a four-year residency programme. Public health specialists (PHSs) are trained to assess population health, develop and implement health policies and manage health services. However, only 15.6% hold managerial positions, and many are assigned to low-population, remote areas rather than to central institutions responsible for designing and coordinating health programmes (Report on the Job Description and Employment of Public Health Specialists Online Workshop, ; Report on the Employment and Managerial Status of Public Health Specialists in the Ministry of Health Positions, ). These structural challenges highlight the need for more effective employment and retention policies for PHSs. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are quantitative methods based on the assumption that goods and services can be described by their attributes and that the value of these goods derives from the combination of those attributes (Ryan ., ). DCEs enable the identification of healthcare workers’ job preferences by quantifying the relative importance of different attributes, the trade-offs individuals are willing to make, and how variations in these attributes influence job choices (WHO, ).