OECD Health Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-2015 (en ligne)
DOI :
10.1787/18152015
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership health studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
 

The Supply of Physician Services in OECD Countries You or your institution have access to this content

Auteur(s):
Steven Simoens, Jeremy Hurst
Date de publication
16 jan 2006
Bibliographic information
N°:
21
Pages
63
DOI
10.1787/608402211700

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The delivery of an appropriate quantity and quality of health care in an efficient way requires, among other things, matching the supply with the demand for the services of physicians, over time. Such matching has led to very different levels of physicians per million population across OECD countries – because of variations, among other things, in: morbidity and mortality, health expenditure as a share of GDP and the design of health systems. In addition, there are signs that a higher density of physicians is found in countries which have left the supply of physicians mainly to the market whereas lower density is found in countries which have planned the intake to medical schools centrally over many years...