Creator:

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Healthcare Practitioners

Tags:

• distribution
• family physicians
• physicians

Date:

2005

URL:

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

Annotation:

Three sources of data were used in this study. The Southam Medical Database provided the number of active physicians in Canada in 2004. This is the primary source of data used to describe the geographical distribution of physicians. Data from the National Physician Database, as of March 2005, were used to generate the number of FTE physicians in 2002. Lastly, the 2004 National Physician Survey was used to examine the differences between rural family physicians and their urban counterparts with respect to practice characteristics.