Assessing needs-based supply of physicians: a criteria-led methodological review of international studies in high-resource settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many health systems embrace the normative principle that the supply of health services ought to be based on the need for healthcare. However, a theoretically grounded framework to operationalize needs-based supply of healthcare remains elusive. The aim of this paper is to critically assess current methodologies that quantify needs-based supply of physicians and identify potential gaps in approaches for physician planning. To this end, we propose a set of criteria for consideration when estimating needs-based supply.

Methods

We conducted searches in three electronic bibliographic databases until March 2020 supplemented by targeted manual searches on national and international websites to identify studies in high-resource settings that quantify needs-based supply of

SUBMITTER: Geiger I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10231959 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature