Forecasting the absolute and relative shortage of physicians in Japan using a system dynamics model approach

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ishikawa, Tomoki ^a   Ohba, Hisateru ^b   Yokooka, Yuki ^c   Nakamura, Kozo ^a   Ogasawara, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO INFORMATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forecasting the number of physicians; Maldistribution; Shortage of physician; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84883114641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-41     Document Type: Article

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