HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREAS

Change in the overall* percentage of non-metropolitan counties, 2010 to 2020, with a shortage of primary-care physicians.
*Includes counties with a shortage in a portion of the county and a shortage in the entire county.

  Shortages decreased
  No overall change
  Up to 10 %-point increase in counties with shortages
  > 10 %-point increase in counties with shortages

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Notes

While Hawaii’s two counties did not have an overall change, they both went from a partial shortage to a shortage in the entire county.