title: Geographic distribution of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain.
abstract: Geographic distributions of primary care physicians in Japan and Britain were compared with each other. Regional variation in the number of primary care physicians per unit population was larger in Japan than in Britain. The Gini coefficient of primary care physicians against population in Japan (0.1755) was more than twice that observed for Britain (0.0837), indicating a substantially less equal distribution in Japan. The results can probably be explained by differences in the primary care systems of the two countries.
authors.affiliation: Division of Community and Family Medicine, Centre for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan. matmo10@jb3.so-net.ne.jp
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Farmer
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inada
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kajii
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011320:Primary Health Care