Publications and research

More Doctors Are Needed in America's Inner Cities

Published: Feb 28, 2001

Grant Results Report

Request print version of this publication
More Doctors Are Needed in America's Inner Cities	Quantity

Personal Information

First Name:*
Last Name:*
Organization:
Department:
Address:*
Address 2:
City:*
State:*
Zip Code:*
E-mail Address:*

* Indicates required field for print subscription.
We do not share personal information with third parties, except as needed to fulfill requested services. For more information, please refer to our privacy policy.

Investigators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School examined changes in the availability of physicians in U.S. urban areas from 1980 to 1997.

Key Findings
Key findings reported to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Council on Graduate Medical Education include the following:

The number of office-based primary care physicians grew from 1980 to 1997, and availability was higher in non-poverty areas.
The number of specialists and hospital-based physicians grew much faster in poverty areas during this period.
Physician availability is most strongly associated with the concentration of hospitals in an area.
No single policy aimed at altering the medical workforce showed a dramatic impact on physician availability.
In 1997, the availability of office-based primary care physicians in both high- and low-poverty areas was below levels considered adequate by a panel of 11 medical workforce experts polled by the principal investigator.

Funding
RWJF provided $197,040 in funding from June 1997 to April 1999 to support the project.

Additional readings
Grants

There are currently no additional readings for this publication.

Listed below is one grant that supported this project.

Grant	Awarded to	Amount
Study of urban physician supply trends	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (Madison, WI) ID#: 030968 David A. Kindig, M.D., Ph.D. 608-263-4886 dakindig@facstaff.wisc.edu http://www.wisc.edu	Approved award: $197,995 Actual award: $197,040 June 1997 to March 1999

RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.

Favorites	Google
Digg	Del.icio.us
Twitter	Facebook

Publications and research

More Doctors Are Needed in America's Inner Cities

Get full text or downloads

Personal Information

Most recent publications

Most e-mailed publications

My presentation builder (beta)

You have not collected any slides or slideshows for your presentation. Learn more about the presentation builder and search for slides on our Web site.