Interactive Table

The interactive table below gives data on Alabama's Primary Care Service Areas (PCSAs). A number of variables (or fields) for the PCSAs can be selected with the checkboxes and displayed in the table. Brief descriptions of the terms are given below, but see the About page for more complete definitions.

• Name. Each PCSA is identified by the name of the community at the center of the PCSA.
• Type. Classification of the PCSA as either rural or urban, based on the population center.
• Population, 0–19, 65+. The total population, population in the age group 0–19, and population in the age group 65+ for the service area, respectively.
• Poverty rate, the fraction of the population below the federal poverty line.
• FMs, IMs, Peds, FTEs, PCPs65+. The number of family medicine physicians, internal medicine physicians, pediatricians, the total number of full-time-equivalent primary care physicians, and the number of PCPs age 65 or older, respectively.
• Pop/FTE. The population to FTE ratio.
• FTE Need. The number of PCP FTEs needed to serve the population in the service area, based on the visits-per-year model.
• FTE Surplus. The difference between the number of PCP FTEs present and the number needed to serve the population. A positive number indicates a surplus; a negative number indicates a deficiency.

The table footer gives statewide totals. So in particular, the population to FTE ratio is for the state as a whole, and the FTE need and Surplus correspond to the entire state treated as a single servie area.

Five PCSAs have about 47% of Alabama's PCPs: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa.