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35Precommitting to Serve the UnderservedAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (5): 23-34. 2012.In many countries worldwide, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, a shortage of physicians limits the provision of lifesaving interventions. One existing strategy to increase the number of physicians in areas of critical shortage is conditioning medical school scholarships on a precommitment to work in medically underserved areas later. Current practice is usually to demand only one year of service for each year of funded studies. We show the effectiveness of scholarships conditional on such precom…Read more
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Harvard UniversityRegular Faculty
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |