<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.7910/DVN/BZ1ABD</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Voicu, Bogdan</creatorName><givenName>Bogdan</givenName><familyName>Voicu</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-2221-2499</nameIdentifier><affiliation>Romanian Academy</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Organizational">Fărcășanu, Dana</creatorName><affiliation>CPSS</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Mustață, Mirela</creatorName><givenName>Mirela</givenName><familyName>Mustață</familyName><affiliation>CPSS</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Vișinescu, Iulia</creatorName><givenName>Iulia</givenName><familyName>Vișinescu</familyName></creator></creators><titles><title>Survey of Romanian General Practitioners and Stakeholders on Medical Desertification</title></titles><publisher>Harvard Dataverse</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Medicine, Health and Life Sciences</subject><subject>Social Sciences</subject><subject>medical desertification</subject><subject>subjective representations</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Voicu, Bogdan</contributorName><givenName>Bogdan</givenName><familyName>Voicu</familyName><affiliation>Romanian Academy</affiliation></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Submitted">2026-02-09</date><date dateType="Updated">2026-02-10</date><date dateType="Collected">2022-02-01/2022-03-01</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">survey data</resourceType><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relationType="IsReferencedBy" SchemeURI="https://doi.org/" relatedIdentifierType="DOI">10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115944</relatedIdentifier><relatedIdentifier relationType="IsReferencedBy" relatedIdentifierType="URL">https://cpss.ro/assets/files/reports/reports-30/Country%20report_%20Romanian%20medical%20deserts.pdf</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>46786</size><size>156174</size><size>846482</size><size>676954</size></sizes><formats><format>application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document</format><format>application/octet-stream</format><format>text/html</format><format>application/pdf</format></formats><version>1.0</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"/><rights rightsURI="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">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</description><description descriptionType="TechnicalInfo">SPSS, zsav</description></descriptions><geoLocations/></resource>