Urbanization and physician maldistribution: a longitudinal study in Japan
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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 distribut...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-10-01
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| Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/11/260 |