• Although Canada's absolute physiciantopopulation ratio has increased and is at an historic
high, reports of physician shortages and inadequate patient access to physicians abound.• …

Physician supply and demand for the period extending to 2020 were assessed from three
perspectives: physician utilization in group-and staff-model health maintenance …

Background Physicians play a critical role in healthcare delivery. With an aging US
population, population growth, and a greater insured population following the Affordable …

Context Estimates of physician supply in the United States have been based on data that
may overestimate the number of older physicians in the workforce. Objective To compare …

In 2020, the United States may face shortages of 45,400 primary care physicians and 46,100
medical specialists—a total of 91,500 too few doctors. Unfortunately, health workforce …

The United States faces a serious physician shortage that is likely to worsen in the coming
decade without multifaceted intervention. At the same time, the US health care system is in a …

The need to assess the capacity of the nation's future health care workforce in general—and
physician workforce in particular—is important for both public and private sectors. They both …

When stacked up against countries with similar health care goals, namely universal
coverage, it quickly becomes apparent that Canada s health care system is not worth …

The April 1998 issue of the Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada reports on a model that was developed to project the national supply of active …

In this issue of HSR, the article by Rittenhouse et al.(2004) calls into question two different
sources of information about physicians' decisions to leave clinical practice: data from the …