BOOKS OF RtfiDIfGS - PAHO/WHO

- 246 -
Table 1. Relative Numb of Primary Care ViLt iuFOR u
ft, Di~rent Speciahi~ FHYSICIANS
SViddty Weeks/ Rclative vliitf/
day yedar year
Genral and hmlly .. 3931
Internal medLcine .... 2095
Ped latrtic ............ 3.1
47.73
47.20
47.77
1.000
0.24
0~25
Obbanrñ.gy ldog . 2714
CaGe n l urgry ..... 1873
47.70
47.0
0.i2
0.4M7
E' l lted Ir.. Ddkber. Ra>tckh, and Murray 19.
Et tlmated (rom Rrfernce Dato o, the Profil of Medical
Prt"rc [-lll.
incom of $15,000 and over since it is amumed that this income group
has all of iu expreed demand satisfied and would be able to bear the
full monetary cos of receiving care. In 1971 people in this income
group visited all phycians at the rate of 5.1 viits per year, and, of
thee, 3.0 viiut were to primary care physlcians [15].
For he purpoS of this study, the ideal population i3 also defined
as having damoep phic characriuica similar to the population of
Indiana and it la sumed tht geogrphic acccaibility to .. m-a care
(pentage of the potentlal demand that is expreued ae allowing
for die comt &njd iíuavenlnce of traveling to a phypician) for this
group l tihe ame au the average geopaphik accessbility for Indiana,
whkch rus esablUb u a 0.9373. Thc demand rate for primary care
ot be ideal population n thbn be calculted u 3.0/0.9373 or 3.20
visiu Thaefore dth yearly capacity of an FTPC physician i 8,762/
320 or 2700 individuals of the ideal population. With this informa.
tion, an algorithn has been developed for obtaining indexes of pri.
ary care delivery for the previoudly defned service areas.
Tbl . ui~ve Nu~be d ViI Atene~ by
Giernal Und Faiy PCra of D ut
Ae G~
(Sore: 5l~dr~ et aL [U8
yer
Unde 16 0.12
vI39 UA24
45-49 0191
55-69 9.10
¡(1~0-em6( amasI~
Owd~~~-BO~~.~~ 0127dP ~ ~
~FALL
~~1978
Ore.. _ . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~