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Table 3 Proposed numbers of State-certified occupational physicians in the 16 German states with Saarland as benchmark [23]

From: Imbalances in the German public health system - numbers of state-certified occupational physicians and relation to socioeconomic data

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State

Current number of State-certified occupational physicians [23]

Working population (Mio.) (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Startseite.html)

Proposed State-certified occupational physicians

1

Saarland

4

0.5

4

2

Bremen

3

0.4

3

3

Brandenburg

5

1.1

9

4

Thuringia

4

1.0

8

5

Bavaria

23

6.7

54

6

Saxony-Anhalt

3

1.0

8

7

Berlin

5

1.7

14

8

Mecklenburg-West Pommerania

2

0.7

6

9

Saxony

5

1.9

15

10

Rhineland-Palatinate

4

1.9

15

11

Hamburg

2

1.1

9

12

Hesse

5

3.1

25

13

Schleswig-Holstein

2

1.3

10

14

Baden-Württemberg

8

5.6

45

15

Lower Saxony

5

3.7

30

16

North Rhine Westphalia

7

8.7

70