Geographic distribution of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain

Health and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 164-166

  Matsumoto, Masatoshi ^a   Inoue, Kazuo ^b   Farmer, Jane ^c   Inada, Haruhiko ^d   Kajii, Eiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Great Britain; Japan; Physicians; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICE; JAPAN; MEDICAL FEE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; JAPAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350783866     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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