Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #111431

Timothy T. Brown, PhD, Jenny X. Liu, and Richard Scheffler, PhD. Petris Center - School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Ave, Suite 525, Berkeley, CA 94720-7380, 510-643-4103, timbrownphd@yahoo.com

We estimate discrete-time survival models of physician departure from California counties for three groups of physicians: Black, Hispanic, and non-Black, non-Hispanic. Independent variables include both physcians characteristics (age, sex, race/ethnicity, state of birth, primary and secondary specialties) and area characteristics (economic, amenities, medical system, demographic, weather). We estimate models for the years 1998-2003. These models allow us to estimate the probability of a physician of a given type leaving an area within California. Our main variable of interest is the difference between the percentage of the population that is African-American (Hispanic) and the percentage of physicians who are African-American (Hispanic). We seek to understand whether the level of potential physician-patient racial/ethnic concordance affects the departure of Black and Hispanic physicians from areas within California.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to

• Discuss the problem of the insufficient supply of minority physicians in California.
• List the characteristics of areas that Black and Hispanic physicians are more likely to leave when moving within or out of California.
• Describe any differences in the tenure of physicians who move within or out of California by race/ethnicity.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.