ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a reasonably description of Peru's population of medical doctors, their institutional affiliations, their geographical distribution, and their social-demographic characteristics. Policy-makers may well wish to know how establishing a new medical school in a region previously without one will affect the distribution of doctors, as compared to changing admissions policies or other alternatives. The distribution of doctors working for Social Security Institute and the private sector is very similar. It is clear that doctors working for the Ministry of Health would be much more likely to be located in a province with low electrification than doctors working for EPSS or in the private sector. The chapter presents the results of a behavioral model of subsectorial and geographical locational choice. The doctors tend to locate in areas near their birthplaces, in their places of medical schooling, and in urban areas, although these tendencies vary in intensity with age and sex.
