A needs-based model determines the number of physicians per capita required to achieve 80% coverage of live births by a skilled health-care attendant. In contrast, our economic model identifies the number of physicians per capita that are likely to be demanded, given each country's economic ...
However, the Research Institute for Healthcare Policy (RIHP), a research arm under the Korean Medical Association, pointed out that the ranking of doctors' income by country varies depending on where they set the criteria. The institute added that many countries with higher per capita GDP than ...
The country has a Human Development Index of 0.755 and a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$ 11,067 per capita [13]. It is marked by profound health disparities [14], and despite the major advances achieved towards the decrease of infant mortality rates and infectious diseases control [15...
Nowadays, Spain has one of the biggest amount of physicians per capita. This situation is worrying in comparison with other countries in our environment (for example U.K, Italy, France or Germany). That is due to the inappropriate planning policies carried for a long time, which basically ...
It may be argued that our results from Norway (which is a high-cost country with rather high salary levels as compared with most other European and Western countries) are influenced by a remuneration system for Norwegian hospital doctors that is too favorable to be relevant to other health ...
THP per capita was lower in Japan (2,474 USD) than that in Italy (2,614 USD), the United Kingdom (2,760 USD), Germany (3,371 USD), France (3,449 USD), Canada (3,687 USD) or the United States (6,714 USD).7 Fact 2: Physician shortage The Ministry of Health, Labour and ...
Switzerland is the first European country where health maintenance organizations (HMOs) characterised by capitation (per capita lumpsum) and gatekeeping were implemented according to the HMO staff model known in the USA. The development of managed health care in Switzerland relies on the be...
Similarly, if there are fewer pediatricians in a healthcare market, family doctors were more likely to provide care for kids. This one was really strong. Compared with geographic areas that had the highest per capita supply of pediatricians, family physicians practicing in areas with no pediatricia...
Exposure to primary care was calculated from duration of visits recorded by the physician, and reports on rates of visits to primary care for each country. Results: In each country, primary care physicians managed an average of 1.4 morbidity related problems per visit. In the US, 46 expanded ...
There is an additional factor that influences the FPs’ decision on whether or not to approach smoking cessation. In Romania, payment for primary care is based 80% per capita and 20% fee-for-service. (Since April 2013, this has been changed to 70 and 30%, respectively.) This means that...