Health Resources: Population-to-family Physician Ratios, 1996

Neither rural areas nor urban areas predominate with respect to any specific range of the family physician ratios. The Federal and Provincial Advisory Committee on Health Manpower recommended that a ratio of 1307:1 would be a suitable target for family physicians. In contrast to the distribution of physician specialists, family physicians are more prevalent in terms of their presence in virtually all areas of Canada.

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