Physician location survey: Self-reported and census-defined rural/urban locations

Using a survey of New York State Residence-Trained Family Physicians and the 1990 census data, this paper assesses the relative importance and consistency of factors associated with physician practice locations when different definitions of community size are used. By matching the zip code informati...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 1997-06, Vol.44 (11), p.1761-1766
Main Authors: Lin, Ge, Rosenthal, Thomas C., Horwitz, Mary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude of Health Personnel
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Career Choice
Census
Censuses
Classification
Community Size
Definitions
Doctors
Female
Geographic location
Health participants
Health Services
Humans
Location
location factor
Male
Medical sciences
New York
New York State
physician
physician location factor rural-urban difference zip code
Physicians
Physicians, Family - psychology
Polls & surveys
Professional Practice Location
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Reproducibility of Results
Rural Areas
Rural Health
Rural Urban Differences
rural-urban difference
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Urban Areas
Urban Health
zip code
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Summary:Using a survey of New York State Residence-Trained Family Physicians and the 1990 census data, this paper assesses the relative importance and consistency of factors associated with physician practice locations when different definitions of community size are used. By matching the zip code information with 434 physicians' practice locations, physician respondents' self-reported communities are linked to census-defined communities. It was found that the significant level of some variables could be affected when community classifications were based on survey responses rather than census data. It concludes that caution should be taken for interpreting rural-urban differences when the data are solely based on self-reported practice locations.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00378-4