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The current shortage and future surplus of doctors: a projection of the future growth of the Japanese medical workforce

BACKGROUND: Starting in the late 1980s, the Japanese government decreased the number of students accepted into medical school each year in order to reduce healthcare spending. The result of this policy is a serious shortage of doctors in Japan today, which has become a social problem in recent years...

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Autores principales: Takata, Hideaki, Nagata, Hiroshi, Nogawa, Hiroki, Tanaka, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21619585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-9-14