The rising cost of higher education raises concerns about equitable access to professional education for underrepresented minorities (URMs). This is problematic since URMs play critical roles in the...
Author(s): Christopher Toretsky, Sunita Mutha and Janet Coffman
New technological advances could mitigate rising health workforce demand, but will not replace the direct care workforce, according to this report. The report includes a taxonomy of currently...
Author(s): Susan Chapman, Jacqueline Miller and Joanne Spetz
Home health and personal care aides are one of the largest groups of health care workers in the US, with nearly three million people providing direct care for people with serious illness living in...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Robyn I. Stone, Susan A. Chapman, and Natasha Bryant
Seven million Californians, the majority of them Latino, African American, and Native American, live in areas experiencing shortfalls of primary care, dental care, or mental health care providers....
With rising costs, increasing burnout, and a rapidly changing environment, health care leaders may feel like they’re facing an uphill battle. This issue of CIN Connections features tips, advice, and...
The purpose of this study is to examine practice patterns of graduates of primary care dental postgraduate (PGD) training programs with a longstanding history of Health Resources and Services...
Author(s): Ginachukwu Amah, Matthew Jura and Elizabeth Mertz
There are insufficient numbers of practicing geriatricians to meet current demand for their services, and the shortage is projected to worsen in the coming decades as the number of older Americans...
Author(s): Timothy Bates, Aubri Kottek and Joanne Spetz
By 2030, California’s senior population will double to 9 million, but the state faces an estimated shortage of 200,000 home health and home care aides. To exacerbate the problem, California’s home...
Missed nursing care is an important measure of nursing care quality that is sensitive to nurse staffing and is associated with patient outcomes in medical–surgical and pediatric inpatient settings....
Author(s): Kathleen Rice Simpson, Audrey Lyndon, Joanne Spetz, Caryl L. Gay, and Gay L. Landstorm.
Although access to dental care has improved over time, many children still face difficulty in obtaining services. One strategy to increase access is through mobile dental services, often in...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Nadereh Pourat, Xiao Chen, Christopher Lee, Ana Martinez, Kong Xin, and Dana Hughes