A Model of the Change, Attributable to Government Health Insurance Plans, in Location Patterns of Physicians—With Supporting Evidence from Ontario, Canada

G I Thrall and J G Tsitanidis
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G I Thrall: Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260, USA
J G Tsitanidis: Department of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260, USA

Environment and Planning C, 1983, vol. 1, issue 1, 45-55

Abstract: The introduction of government health insurance programs may induce physicians to change location trends that prevailed under previous market conditions. The subsequent change in geographic accessibility of people to medical services may be measured by the change in the stock of physicians per capita across space. An example of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan suggests that following its introduction, the change in the stock of physicians per capita is most sensitive to the initial stock of physicians and whether the physician is a specialist or not.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1068/c010045

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