Creator:

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Healthcare Practitioners

Tags:

• family physicians
• physician care
• physician demographics
• physician migration
• physician workload
• physicians

Date:

2002

URL:

http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/chanjun02.pdf

Annotation:

This study used data from the Southam Medical Database (SMDB) and the National Physician Database (NPDB). The SMDB provided information on the 'practice pool' (the head count of active physicians in any given year) between 1981 and 2000. The database also tracked physicians as they flow from one career stage to the next (e.g. postgraduate training, active practice, moving abroad and retirement). The NPDB was used to examine differences in use of health services by patients in different age-gender groups and the differences in the volume of services provided by physicians in different physician agegender groups. The Janus 2001 survey of family physicians, carried out by the College of Family Physicians of Canada, provided additional information on family physician work hours, job satisfaction and access to services.