The Remuneration of General Practitioners and Specialists in 14 OECD Countries What are the Factors Influencing Variations across Countries?

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the remuneration of doctors in 14 OECD countries for which reasonably comparable data were available in OECD Health Data 2007 (Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland,...

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Main Author: Fujisawa, Rie
Other Authors: Lafortune, Gaétan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2008
Series:OECD Health Working Papers
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