The Impact of Pediatrician Supply on Child Health Outcomes: Longitudinal Evidence from Japan

To investigate the effect of pediatrician supply on under-5 mortality over the period 2000-2010.Multiple publicly available data sources were used.Japan's 366 "Secondary Tier of Medical Care Units" (STMCU) were used as study units. To evaluate the association between under-5 mortality and pediatrician supply, we explored time and area fixed-effects Poisson regression model. The following factors were introduced into the models as time-varying...