Geographic distribution of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain

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作者
Matsumoto, Masatoshi [1 ]
Inoue, Kazuo [2 ]
Farmer, Jane [3 ]
Inada, Haruhiko [4 ]
Kajii, Eiji [1 ]
机构
[1] Jichi Med Univ, Ctr Community Med, Div Community & Family Med, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 3290498, Japan
[2] Teikyo Univ, Sch Med, Dept Community Med, Itabashi Ku, Tokyo 1738605, Japan
[3] Univ Highlands and Islands, Ctr Hlth Sci, Ctr Rural Hlth, Inverness IV2 3JH, Scotland
[4] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Med, Dept Publ Hlth, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
关键词
Physicians; Primary health care; Japan; Great Britain; PRACTITIONERS;
D O I
10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.07.005
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Geographic distributions of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain were compared with each other. Regional variation in the number of primary care physicians per unit population was larger in Japan than in Britain. The Gini coefficient of primary care physicians against population in Japan (0.1755) was more than twice that observed for Britain (0.0837), indicating a substantially less equal distribution in Japan. The results can probably be explained by differences in the primary care systems of the two countries. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:164 / 166
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