Table 1.
New York State physicians in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan HPSAs, 2000
| New York State | Metropolitan HPSAs | Nonmetropolitan HPSAs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
| Specialty | |||||
| Family practice | 2,683 | 348 | 13 | 98 | 4 |
| General practice | 582 | 81 | 14 | 8 | 1 |
| Internal medicine | 7,989 | 1,125 | 14 | 68 | 1 |
| Obstetrics-gynecology | 2,698 | 338 | 13 | 22 | 1 |
| Pediatrics | 4,152 | 715 | 17 | 22 | 1 |
| All other specialties | 29,877 | 4,347 | 15 | 233 | 0.7 |
| Chi-square=218.89 | p<0.001 | ||||
| US/IMG | |||||
| USMGs | 29,030 | 3,429 | 12 | 292 | 1 |
| US-IMGs | 3,303 | 266 | 8 | 22 | 0.7 |
| Non-US IMGs | 15,648 | 2,808 | 18 | 137 | 0.9 |
| Chi-square=28.34 | p<0.001 | ||||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 35,540 | 4,639 | 13 | 366 | 1 |
| Female | 12,441 | 1,864 | 15 | 85 | 0.7 |
| Chi-square=20.15 | p<0.001 | ||||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Black, non-Hispanic | 1,512 | 469 | 31 | 7 | 0.5 |
| Hispanic | 1,338 | 304 | 23 | 7 | 0.5 |
| Asian | 5,658 | 1,009 | 18 | 57 | 1 |
| Native American/Alaskan native | 14 | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Other | 1,229 | 198 | 16 | 20 | 2 |
| White, non-Hispanic | 24,080 | 2,493 | 10 | 230 | 1 |
| Missing | 14,150 | 2,030 | 14 | 130 | 1 |
| Chi-square=51.85 | p<0.001 | ||||