Community paediatrics in Ontario: 1996 paediatric physician resource study.

Physician resource planning is a basic underpinning of the management of the health care system. Accurate data on physician numbers and distribution are essential to the process of planning. This paper presents the results of a study commissioned by the Paediatric Executive of the Ontario Medical Association to provide an updated profile of the number and distribution of paediatricians in Ontario in 1995/96.