Steensen J P, Karle H, Vejlsgaard R
Dan Med Bull. 1985 Dec;32(6):361-7.
In the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s Denmark like other western countries has experienced a substantial growth in the number of medical doctors. Throughout the country, the doctor population ratio has improved considerably, a number of new specialised methods of examination and treatment have been started, and the need for doctors to work overtime has largely been abolished. At the same time, however, the growth in the number of doctors has also given rise to problems of postgraduate education, unemployment, the emigration. Furthermore, there has been political anxiety about the impact of an ever growing supply of new doctors on the continuous growth in health expenditure. This article briefly describes the development in the number of doctors through the last decades and the status of the current employment of doctors. Problems created by the growth in the number of doctors, and various initiatives to solve the problems and limit the growth in the supply of doctors are examined. A subsequent article will discuss and elucidate the future development in supply and demand on the employment market for doctors. The article begins with a short outline of the Danish health care system.
在20世纪70年代和80年代初，丹麦和其他西方国家一样，医生数量大幅增长。在全国范围内，医生与人口的比例有了显著提高，许多新的专业检查和治疗方法开始应用，医生加班的需求也基本消除。然而，与此同时，医生数量的增长也引发了研究生教育、失业、移民等问题。此外，对于不断增加的新医生供应对医疗保健支出持续增长的影响，也存在政治上的担忧。本文简要描述了过去几十年医生数量的发展情况以及当前医生的就业状况。研究了医生数量增长所带来的问题，以及为解决这些问题和限制医生供应增长而采取的各种举措。后续文章将讨论并阐明医生就业市场供需的未来发展。文章首先简要概述了丹麦的医疗保健系统。
