Doctors are distributed unequally across different regions in virtually all OECD countries,
and this causes concern about how to continue to ensure access to health services …

Context. While there is debate over whether the US is training too many physicians, many
seem to agree that physicians are geographically maldistributed, with too few in rural areas …

The main goals of this paper are to (1) analyse the inequality in geographic distribution of
physicians and its evolution,(2) estimate the determinants of physician density, and (3) …

Geographic variation in health care utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies
in health care supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes. Using …

The present study analyzes the effect of supply-side determinants on regional inequities in
outpatient care. Inequities are measured by the degree of disparity between need for and …

Objectives The objective of this study was to longitudinally examine the geographic
distribution of physicians in Japan with adjustment for healthcare demand according to …

Meeting the need for physician care outside of urban centres has long been a health policy
concern. The challenges of providing such services in these areas stem from relatively fewer …

The geographical imbalances of General Practitioners (GPs) may affect their accessibility for
populations, especially in medically underserved areas. We investigate the effect of the …

Background A reform in 2010 in Swedish primary care made it possible for private primary
care providers to establish themselves freely in the country. In the former, publicly planned …

We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical
strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and …