Gan, T., Dighe, T. & Porfiri, M. Trade-off between diversity and provision of specialized healthcare in US cities. Nat Cities
Objective:
- Perform urban scaling analysis to elucidate how the prevalence of each specialty varies with the population size and density of a city
Case:
- US cites
Methodology:
- Scaling law
Data Source
- Doctor and clinic individual data
Findings:
- 94.67% of medical specialties scale sublinearly and the remaining 5.33% scale linearly with population size
