Problem
Surplus medical doctors
Other Names:
Oversupply of physiciansOverproduction by medical schools
Nature:
In countries where doctors are paid well and where training facilities profit financially from producing doctors, more doctors are trained than are needed to serve the population. This increases competition among doctors for patients and results in the prescription of more medical services than patients need. Broader Problems:
Surplus Aggravates:
Production of non-essentialsCompetition for scarce patientsUnnecessary personal consumptionUnnecessary health system referralsLack of production for domestic consumersCounter-productive subsidy of medical schools Reduces:
Insufficient doctors Strategies:
Reducing production of specialists Values:
OverproductionOversupplySurplus Subject(s):
Medicine → Medicine ??Commerce → Purchasing, supplying??
Commerce → Merchandise??
Industry → Production??
Health Care → Physicians??
Education → Schools??
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
G: Very specific problems Date of last update
20.05.1999 – 00:00 CEST