The measures that have been or can be employed to overcome problems related to physician maldistribution and imbalance are the following:
1. New medical schools should be instituted in order to ease the shortage of physicians
2. To answer the health labor force problem, nurses' roles are expanded.
3. Regulation of health care professions, reimbursement policies are changed, and have programs that aim at underserved areas.
4. To achieve a better balance in the proportion of primary care physicians and specialists, continual efforts are needed to improve the specialty distribution of physician labor forces.