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| Title |
Accessibility to primary health care in Belgium: an evaluation of policies awarding financial assistance in shortage areas
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2296-14-122 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bart Dewulf, Tijs Neutens, Yves De Weerdt, Nico Van de Weghe |
| Abstract |
In many countries, financial assistance is awarded to physicians who settle in an area that is designated as a shortage area to prevent unequal accessibility to primary health care. Today, however, policy makers use fairly simple methods to define health care accessibility, with physician-to-population ratios (PPRs) within predefined administrative boundaries being overwhelmingly favoured. Our purpose is to verify whether these simple methods are accurate enough for adequately designating medical shortage areas and explore how these perform relative to more advanced GIS-based methods. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 125 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 117 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 20% |
| Researcher | 15 | 12% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 17% |
| Unknown | 24 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 9% |
| Engineering | 10 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 28 | 22% |
| Unknown | 26 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 August 2013.
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#22,759,802
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#2,212
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#37
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