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Implications of an Aging Rural Physician Workforce

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  • Lucy Skinner, B.A.,
  • Douglas O. Staiger, Ph.D.,
  • David I. Auerbach, Ph.D.,
  • and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N.

As fewer younger physicians enter rural practice in the United States, the rural physician workforce is graying and nearing retirement. The uneven distribution of doctors presents serious access problems, exacerbates health needs, and has important equity implications.

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Author Affiliations

From the Geisel School of Medicine (L.S.) and the Department of Economics (D.O.S.), Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA (D.O.S.); and the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Montana State University College of Nursing, Bozeman (D.I.A., P.I.B.).

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