NUMBER OF PHYSICIANS AND PHYSICIAN/POPULATION RATIOS: SELECTED YEARS 1950–67 AND ESTIMATES 1969-75 Total popula. Physicians * Total active tions 100 T physicians (thousands) populate 1950 1955 1960. 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1975. 219, 897 240, 153 259, 433 288, 671 297, 097 305, 453 311, 000 317, 700 325, 100 361, 500 156, 472 170, 499 185, 370 199, 278 201, 585 203, 708 205, 791 206, 430 209, 077 226, 052 Source: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Boren of Health Professions Education and Manpower Training. Health Manpower Source Book, sec. 20. NUMBER OF PHYSICIANS RELATIVE TO POPULATION, 1967 The number of physicians providing patient care to the civilian popnlation is 1967 (latest year for which data is available) was 132 per 100,000 population. Alaska and Mississippi had ratios as low as 69. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Bureau of Health Professions Education and Manpower Training. Health Manpower Source Book, Section 20. MEDICAL SCHOOLS Source: Journal of American Medical Association, vol. 206, No. 9, Nov. 25, 19688. Dentists The need for dentists will not be met in the near future. In spite of considerable expansion of production, the Nation will be faced with a shortage of approximately 30,000 dentists in 1975. NUMBER OF DENTISTS AND DENTISTS/POPULATION RATIOS–SELECTED YEARS 1950-68, ESTIMATES 1983-* Source: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Bureau of Health Professions Education and Manpower Training. Health Manpower Source Book, sec. 20. |