The Impact of Pediatrician Supply on Child Health Outcomes: Longitudinal Evidence from Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of pediatrician supply on under-5 mortality over the period 2000-2010.

Data sources

Multiple publicly available data sources were used.

Study design

Japan's 366 "Secondary Tier of Medical Care Units" (STMCU) were used as study units. To evaluate the association between under-5 mortality and pediatrician supply, we explored time and area fixed-effects Poisson regression model. The following factors were introduced into the models as time-varying controls: (1) number of physicians other than pediatricians per total population except for under-5-year-old population, and (2) income per total population by year and STMCU. Extensive sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess robustness of results.

Principal findings

Pediatrician

SUBMITTER: Sakai R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4799901 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature