<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Survey of Romanian General Practitioners and Stakeholders on Medical Desertification</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BZ1ABD</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Voicu, Bogdan</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Fărcășanu, Dana</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Mustață, Mirela</dcterms:creator><dcterms:creator>Vișinescu, Iulia</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Harvard Dataverse</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2026-02-10</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-02-10T15:13:21Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>A survey of general practitioners and various stakeholders in the medical field / public administration related to medical desertification in Romania. Data was collected in the February 2022. The results were explored in various reports and papers, including:

Alexandra Deliu, Dana Fărcășanu, Letiția Mihail, Mirela Mustață, Iulia Vișinescu, Bogdan Voicu. 2022. Romanian Medical Deserts. A Country Report, Proiectul AHEAD, Bucharest: Center for Health Services and Policy.  
(in Romanian: https://cpss.ro/assets/files/reports/reports-30/Raport de %C8%9Bar%C4%83_ De%C8%99erturile medicale din Rom%C3%A2nia.pdf) 
(in English: https://cpss.ro/assets/files/reports/reports-30/Country report_ Romanian medical deserts.pdf)


Voicu, B., Fărcășanu, D., Mustață, M., Deliu, A., &amp; Vișinescu, I. (2023). Using laws, common sense, and statistical approaches to design indicators for ‘medical desertification’: An application on the Romanian case. Social Science &amp; Medicine, 327, Article 115944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115944

The first report provides full methodological specifications for the survey. 
The database is labelled with Romanian language labels, while the questionnaire is provided in Romanian language as well.

Data was produced within a project by CPSS (https://cpss.ro/) - Center for Health Policy &amp; Services</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Medicine, Health and Life Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>medical desertification</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>subjective representations</dcterms:subject><dcterms:IsReferencedBy>Voicu, B., Fărcășanu, D., Mustață, M., Deliu, A., &amp; Vișinescu, I. (2023). Using laws, common sense, and statistical approaches to design indicators for ‘medical desertification’: An application on the Romanian case. Social Science &amp; Medicine, 327, Article 115944., doi, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115944, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115944</dcterms:IsReferencedBy><dcterms:IsReferencedBy>Alexandra Deliu, Dana Fărcășanu, Letiția Mihail, Mirela Mustață, Iulia Vișinescu, Bogdan Voicu. 2022. Romanian Medical Deserts. A Country Report, Proiectul AHEAD, Bucharest: Center for Health Services and Policy.  (in Romanian) (in English), url, https://cpss.ro/assets/files/reports/reports-30/Country%20report_%20Romanian%20medical%20deserts.pdf, https://cpss.ro/assets/files/reports/reports-30/Country%20report_%20Romanian%20medical%20deserts.pdf</dcterms:IsReferencedBy><dcterms:date>2026-02-10</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Voicu, Bogdan</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2026-02-09</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2022-02-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2022-03-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:type>survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:license>CC0 1.0</dcterms:license></metadata>