Determinants of Physician Office Location
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9102658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert S Kaplan (0000-0001-7429-5583, Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author), Samuel Leinhardt (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 406-415 |
| Publication date | 1973-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-197309000-00005 |
| PMID | 4744977 |
| OpenAlex | W2044725895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
Physician offices are commonly assumed to be comparatively scarce in low income and black urban areas. To test this assumption, the number of physician offices in each census tract in the city of Pittsburgh was cross tabulated against median income levels. This cursory analysis indicated that, in contradiction to the conventional wisdom, income level and office frequency were negatively correlated. Multiple regression techniques were then employed to test a model of physician distribution within Pittsburgh that allowed the contribution of several determinants to be tested simultaneously. The results indicated that proximity to short term hospitals and the presence of large amounts of commercial zoning were the principal factors affecting physician office location. After controlling for these factors, the effect of median income of an area was found to be neutral, exerting no influence one way or the other, although there was a slight tendency for physicians to be scarce near concentrations of blacks
Census · Census tract · Demographic economics · Demographics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family medicine · Geography · Health care · Median income · Physician Office · Political science · Principal (computer security) · Sociology · Test (biology) · Zip code · Zoning · Computer Science · Demography · Housing Market and Economics · Law · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gerontology
The Changing Urban-Suburban Distribution of Medical Practice in Large American Metropolitan Areas
Distribution of Private Practice Offices of Physicians with Specified Characteristics Among Urban Neighborhoods
Policies To Influence the Spatial Distribution of Physicians
General practitioner distribution and population dynamics
Part three
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 1994 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |