California physicians : a portrait of practice California health care almanac (California HealthCare Foundation) Coffman, Janet M., author. Calimlim, Emmie, author. Fix, Margaret author. Physicians -- statistics & numerical data Although the number of active physicians increased by 21% between 2006 and 2018, and exceeded the 10% population growth, many areas in California face substantial shortages of primary care providers and specialists. California Physicians: A Portrait of Practice presents detailed information about the supply, distribution, and demographic characteristics of the state’s physicians and provides important context for understanding the challenges of caring for people during a public health emergency like COVID-19, as well as the complexity of caring for an aging and increasingly racially/ethnically diverse population. Oakland, CA : California Health Care Foundation, March 2021 California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (36 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-9918366887506676-pdf 9918366887506676 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918366887506676 English California United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0