It's a real time bomb. And without tackling the problem head-on quickly, it could explode much faster than it seems ... Because in recent years, medical desertification has clearly accelerated in France. Whether through studies by the DREES or the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) and the French Mutuality, the observation is the same: more and more French people live in areas that are under-dense in doctors. general practitioners and specialists. That is, places where access to consultations per year and per inhabitant is less than 2.5.
And beyond popular belief, these territories are not only at the heart of rural France.
Quite the contrary.
For example, Île-de-France has many areas where access to care is the most problematic.
According to an AMF study, published in December 2020, 11.1% of French people lived in a medical desert in 2019, or 7.4 million French people, against 5.7 million
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