Does the insufficient supply of physicians worsen their urban-rural distribution? A Hiroshima-Nagasaki comparison

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Matsumoto, M ^a   Inoue, K ^b   Kashima, S ^c   Takeuchi, K ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geography; Japan; Manpower; Medically underserved area; Physicians; Rural health; Supply and distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MANPOWER; PHYSICIAN; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHYSICIANS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84863546950     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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