Effective Factors on Density of General and Specialists Physicians in Counties of Iran

Equitable geographical distribution of working personnel in health area is one of the determining elements of access level of people all walks of life to health services; and equitable distribution has an important role in materialization of long term objectives stipulated in country's long term perspectives on health sector. The purpose of the current research is to identify effective and instrumental elements affecting density of general physician and specialists’ ones in towns. This research is of analytical one and it had been done cross sectional. The study population are all of the provinces whose data in 2006 are on the site of Iran's statistics center. 147 towns have been chosen randomly from the study population. In order to analyze the data, the ordinary least squares method and Eviews 6 software were used. The findings showed that the most determining element affecting the density of general physician were respectively the urbanization proportion (-1.35), government hospital beds (0.37), private hospital beds (0.21) and the most determining element affecting the density of specialistsphysicain were respectively government hospital beds (0.75), private hospital beds (0.51) and the population rate (0.28). Higher density of gevernment and private health resources will lead to higher physician density in the area. Density of general physicians are impressible of instructions and circular of health ministry. In policy-making of physicians equitable distribution to take into consideration these points and also elastisity of physician density is efficient and essential.