caa a22 4500 469101784 CHVBK 20180323133046.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00233744 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00233744 Federal health care policy and the geographic diffusion of physicians: A macro-scale analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Stuart Foster, Wilpen Gorr] The federal government passed legislation in the 1960's and 70's to increase physician supplies and reduce spatial inequalities in access to physicians. A major policy was to aggressively continue increasing the overall supply of physicians on the assumption that market forces would eventually divert physicians from areas of high physician density to those of low density. Using state-level, annual data collected over a 21-year period, this paper investigates the macro-scale spatial diffusion of physicians as an essential element in evaluating this policy. The results provide evidence of the policy impacting locational trends relating to primary care physicians, but not specialists. They also indicate that the Medicaid/Medicare programs may have adversely affected the maldistribution problem. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Foster Stuart Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University, 42101, Bowling Green, KY, USA aut Gorr Wilpen The School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Policy Sciences Kluwer Academic Publishers 25/2(1992-05-01), 117-134 0032-2687 25:2<117 1992 25 11077 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00233744 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00233744 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Foster Stuart Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University, 42101, Bowling Green, KY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gorr Wilpen The School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Policy Sciences Kluwer Academic Publishers 25/2(1992-05-01), 117-134 0032-2687 25:2<117 1992 25 11077 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer