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| | FMHSRN - Letter 18 |
 | | Importantly, medical service availability (number of doctors and hospital beds) is not a defining characteristic for this group of counties. |
 | | The variables that were relatively stable include the size of the population of counties, the percentage of the labor force that work in their county of residence, percentage of population that was white, percentage of population that was Hispanic, and the number of physicians per 1000 population. |
 | | However, the number of physicians (either MD's or OD's) per 1000 persons did increase slightly in 6 of the 9 designated pure types (PTs 1, 11, 13, 14, 23 and 27) and decreased slightly in other pure types. |
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