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Title

How have location patterns of physicians affected the availability of medical services? / Joseph P. Newhouse ... [et al.] ; prepared for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1982]

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Additional Authors

• Newhouse, Joseph P.
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
• United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xi, 29 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

We analyzed the location of 17 categories of physicians in the years 1970 to 1979. As the supply of physicians grew during these years, smaller communities increasingly acquired various types of medical and surgical specialty services. Similar trends are observed in four different regions. The fraction of physicians who are board-certified tends to rise with community size. Only a small handful of towns with a population of 2500 or more are farther than ten miles from a physician. The profile of location patterns strongly suggests that competitive forces play a major role in determining where physicians choose to practice. Thus, as the supply of physicians increases in the 1980s, we can anticipate that services will become more and more available to populations outside metropolitan areas.

Subject

• Professional Practice
• Physicians > supply & distribution
• Health Services Accessibility
• Medical offices > Location > United States
• Physicians > Supply and demand > United States
• Medical care > United States
• Medicine > Practice > United States
• United States

Note

• "May 1982."
• "R-2872-HJK/HHS/RWJ."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Introduction -- Methods And Data -- Population Of Communities -- Categories Of Specialists -- Where Are Physicians Locating Their Practices? -- Practice Location At Each Point In Time -- Changes Over Time In Practice Location -- How Methods Affect Results -- Regional Differences -- Evidence That Market Forces Are A Major Determinant Of Physician Distribution -- Diffusion Of Physicians Over Time -- Market Forces And The Location Of Specialists At Any Given Point In Time What Happens When Generalist Physicians Decline In Numbers? -- Differences Between the Distribution Of Board-Certified And Noncertified Specialists -- Discussion And Conclusions – References.

ISBN

• 0833004107 (pbk.)
• 9780833004109 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82009050^

OCLC

• 8474020
• SCSB-10475467

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Harvard Library