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| Title |
Urbanization and physician maldistribution: a longitudinal study in Japan
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-11-260 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Shinichi Tanihara, Yasuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Une, Ichiro Kawachi |
| Abstract |
The relative shortage of physicians in Japan's rural areas is an important issue in health policy. In the 1970s, the Japanese government began a policy to increase the number of medical students and to achieve a better distribution of physicians. Beginning in 1985, however, admissions to medical school were reduced to prevent a future oversupply of physicians. In 2007, medical school entrants equaled just 92% of their 1982 peers. The urban annual population growth rate is positive and the rural is negative, a trend that may affect denominator populations and physician distribution. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Mexico | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 82 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 18% |
| Researcher | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 17 | 21% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 32% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 7% |
| Engineering | 5 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 23 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 12 October 2011.
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#14,719,073
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#5,324
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#92,058
of 135,957 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#58
of 89 outputs
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