Generalist and specialty physicians; supply and access, 2009-2010

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• Personal Author:
  Hing, Esther ; Schappert, Susan M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  As the overall population ages, policy makers are focusing on the current and growing shortage of the primary care workforce (1–3), particularly as provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) expand health insurance coverage. This report presents selected trends in physician shortage measures and access to care measures for generalist physicians and specialists. Generalists are those in the specialties of family practice, general practice, internal medicine, and pediatrics, whereas specialists comprise all other specialties. Estimates are based on physicians who participated in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) by providing data on visits.
  
  CDC-INFO Pub ID 221373
  
  
• Content Notes:
  221373
  
  Esther Hing and Susan M. Schappert.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-[8])
  
  
• Subjects:
  General Practitioners Insurance, Health Medicaid Medicare Medicine Office Visits Specialization Waiting Lists
• Source:
  NCHS data brief ; no. 105 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2012-1209
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; 7, [1] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:01809d475fefa2e0d86f10ffd735285f03448bd2a816a7181e45dd9bdb0561e84eb810545ceb9bb4f5d3e78e9024d6c9149b74103d22b5e0058991b16ad6fc1e
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13562/cdc_13562_DS1.pdf
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