Population aging and physician maldistribution: a longitudinal study in Japan
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Population aging and physician maldistribution: A longitudinal study in Japan
Background: Over the past two decades, population aging and the introduction of the new postgraduate medical education program in 2004 have impacted on the geographic maldistribution of physicians in Japan. The purpose of this study was to evaluate recent changes in physician distribution across municipalities from 1996 to 2012 using Gini coefficients and to clarify the impact of the new medica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hospital Administration
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1927-7008,1927-6990
DOI: 10.5430/jha.v5n1p29