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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Open Science Publishers LLP</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">88</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE IMPACT OF DOCTORS PER CAPITA ON THE MORTALITY RATE IN ASIA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shetty</surname><given-names>Anil</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shetty</surname><given-names>Shraddha</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>30</day><month>05</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>04</volume><issue>09</issue><fpage>10</fpage><lpage>15</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: There is a wide degree of variation in the mortality rate among Asian countries. There is also a significant variation in the doctors per capita in the region. Objective: To determine if the physician population ratio in a country has a significant effect on the mortality rate. Methodology: Data obtained from the World Health Organization and the World Factbook was collated and was analyzed under 4 sub-continental groups to determine the bearing of doctor numbers on mortality in Asian countries. Results: Afghanistan had the highest and Qatar the lowest mortality rate. Doctors per capita were highest in Kazakhstan and least in Bhutan. Conclusions: The Doctors per capita had an inverse association with mortality rate.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Doctors per Capita</kwd><kwd> Mortality Rate</kwd><kwd> Asia.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
