韓国における医師マンパワ-の地域階層間不均衡分布に関する研究

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There has been a rapid growth in the number of physicians in Korea. However, increase of the number of physicians does not satisfy needs for the national medical care; the distribution in the urban and rural areas is geographically unbalanced. Statistically reviewing and analyzing all existing data from Korea and Japan, the following results were obtained: Seventy-six percent of all medical facilities are located in urban areas, for example most general hospital are also in urban areas (88.7%). Also, 86.3% of total physicians in 1975, 89.5% in 1980, 87.2% in 1984 and 89.8% in 1987 respectively worked in urban areas. It meant that most physicians had been served in the urban. Furthermore, only 5.5% of specialists worked in the rural areas in spite of the overproduction of specialists in the entire country. Such an unbalance has been a result of the economic, professional and individual desire and life-styles of physicians, also the number of hospital beds and the density of community population. In Japan, both distribution of medical personnels and facilities are located more balanced than in Korea, so that Japanese situation should be one of models for Korean health policies.
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