How Many Doctors Do We Need?

This volume addresses the public and private policies affecting physician supply in the United States, focusing on the physician surplus, market forces, and geographic distribution of physicians, life-style choices and evolving practice patterns, market influences of foreign medical graduates, the university's role in establishing priorities for medical education, and other pertinent topics.

About the author

Duncan Yaggy and Patricia Hodgson, eds.

Product details

• Authors: Duncan Yaggy, Yaggy
• Assisted by: Duncan Yaggy (Editor), Duncan Yaggy (Editor), Patricia Hodgson (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 20.02.1986
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
• EAN: 9780822305774
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-0577-4
• Pages: 176
• Weight (packing): 499 g
• Series: Duke Press Policy Studies; Duke Press Policy Studies
• Subjects: MEDICAL / Health Policy; Business / Economics / Finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General