Interprovincial migration of physicians in Canada: What are the determinants?

Health Policy

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-193

  Basu, Kisalaya ^a   Rajbhandary, Sameer ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrete time hazard model; Interprovincial migration; Logistic formulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; PHYSICIAN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUEBEC; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY;

EID: 33644699575     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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