Disparities in occupational health services: an international comparative study

Table 1 No of Workers, Occupational Physicians, GDP, Health expenditure and GINI index by country

Country	No of Workers (Thousands)	OP	Ratio OP/worker	GDP per capita	Health expenditure	GINI Index
Nigeria	51,778	90	575,311	1,891	68	0.43
Brazil	95,333	10,000	9,533	8,642	726	0.54
Mexico	55,131	255	216,200	9,287	512	0.45
CR*	5,185	500	10,370	18,466	1,110	0.26
Spain	23,034	5,500	4,188	29,600	2,655	0.35
South Korea	28,809	540	53,350	42,998	3,509	0.31
Italy	25,986	9,856	2,637	32,407	2,810	0.36
Japan	65,639	83,000	791	48,603	5,250	0.33
Germany	41,542	12,787	3,249	38,432	3,939	0.28
Austria	4,202	2,000	2,101	39,384	3,753	0.28
Australia	11,254	270	41,681	40,095	3,308	0.33
France	26,376	5,694	4,632	40,144	4,649	0.29
Finland	2,540	2,369	1,072	40,873	3,916	0.26
UK	34,129	1,207	28,276	46,372	4,549	0.35
Israel	3,967	90	44,078	42,912	3,218	0.35
Netherland	8,290	2,400	3,454	45,079	4,575	0.29
Sweden	4,907	1,262	3,888	46,946	4,117	0.27
Denmark	2,931	191	15,345	53,254	5,443	0.28
USA	164,268	4,725	34,766	57,951	9,875	0.41
Norway	2,523	340	7,421	85,139	6,854	0.27

^*CR Czech Republic, UK United Kingdom, No of Workers—Workers, Labor force by thousands, OP Occupational Physicians, Ratio of Workers per OP, GDP—Gross domestic product‏ – per capita, US$; Health expenditure—Health expenditure of GDP per capita, US$

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