Which town in France has the best access to general practitioners?
Montgenèvre (Hautes-Alpes) has the best access to general practitioners in France: 23.9 visits per inhabitant per year.
What are the 10 towns in France with the best access to general practitioners?
In order: Montgenèvre (23.9 visits per inhabitant per year), Vars (18.0 visits per inhabitant per year), Île-d'Aix (15.4 visits per inhabitant per year), Tignes (15.0 visits per inhabitant per year), Cargèse (14.9 visits per inhabitant per year), Île-d'Houat (14.7 visits per inhabitant per year), Val-d'Isère (14.3 visits per inhabitant per year), Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée (12.7 visits per inhabitant per year), Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage (12.7 visits per inhabitant per year), and Île-aux-Moines (12.1 visits per inhabitant per year).
Which town in France has the poorest access to general practitioners?
Rochefourchat (Drôme) has the poorest access to general practitioners in France: 0.0 visits per inhabitant per year. See Medical deserts: the towns in France with the poorest access to general practitioners.
How many towns in France are ranked?
34,848 out of 34,875. Not ranked: communes whose APL is not published.
How is access to doctors measured?
Localized potential accessibility (APL), calculated by DREES, the statistics office of the French Ministry of Health, measures how many general practitioner visits each inhabitant can access per year. It takes into account doctors in the commune and in nearby communes, how much they work, and the age of the population. In its studies, DREES describes communes with an APL below 2.5 visits per inhabitant per year as underserved. Values are high in tourist resorts, where doctors also serve a seasonal population.