Chapter 1: Characterising Australia’s rural specialist physician workforce: the professional profile and satisfaction of junior doctors consultants Objective: To assess differences in demographic characteristics, metropolitan physicians Australia. Design, setting participants: Cross-sectional, population level national survey Medicine Australia: Balancing Employment Life longitudinal cohort stu...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended physician to population ratio is 23:10,000. Kenya has a physician to population ratio of 1.8:10,000 and is among 57 countries listed as having a serious shortage of health workers. Approximately 52% of physicians work in urban areas, 6% in rural and 42% in peri-urban locations. This study explored factors influencing the choice of caree...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study investigated factors related to declining interest in family medicine by US medical school graduates. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all physicians who graduated from 24 medical schools in 1997-1999, and who entered a family medicine residency, and a randomly selected equal number of graduates from the same years who entered other primary care special...

Background: Evaluation of the impacts cutaneous of leishmaniasis (CL) on the patients, their family and government are necessary. Unfortunately these evaluations have not been done. Objective: Due to increased incidence of CL in Isfahan province especially in rural areas, this study was done to assess the expenses of this disease in Isfahan in 1999. Patients and Methods: 196 patients were selec...

despite the relative success of the health system and the promotion of health indicators over the last two decades, iran's health system still faces serious problems. one of the most important of them, is the inequity in access to health. theoretical studies and empirical evidences indicate that implementation of the referral system and family physician plan, is one of the main strategies ...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors that are associated with the scope of practice of FPs and GPs who have office-based practices. DESIGN Secondary univariable and multivariable analyses of cross-sectional data from the 2001 National Family Physician Workforce Survey conducted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. SETTING Canada. PARTICIPANTS General community of FPs and GPs who spent ...