Childbirth is a leading reason for hospital admission in the USA and most labor care is provided by registered nurses under physician or midwife supervision in a nurse-managed care model. Yet, there...
Author(s): Audrey Lyndon, Kathleen Rice Simpson and Joanne Spetz
Introduction
Nurse practitioner (NP) prescribing continues to be a contentious policy issue, and studies systematically examining NP prescribing are lacking. The aim of this study was to conduct a...
Author(s): Ulrike Muench, Jennifer Perloff, Cindy Parks Thomas, Peter I. Buerhaus
This report updates a literature review on peer support providers prepared in 2015. Peer support workers fulfill a broad range of tasks ad job titles, in a broad range of mental health and substance...
Author(s): Alicia LaFrance, Lisel Blash, Joanne Spetz and Susan Chapman
Is California prepared to meet growing demand for primary care?
This report is the first in a series of three Healthforce Center at UCSF reports that will provide information to help policymakers,...
Author(s): Janet Coffman, Igor Geyn and Kristine Himmerick
Minority racial/ethnic pediatric populations and those living in poverty are at greater risk of exposure to trauma, development of mental health disorders and school failure, yet are less likely to...
Author(s): Satu Larson, Joanne Spetz, Claire D. Brindis and Susan Chapman
This publication, which is part of a special issue for the journal Health Services Research on the evolving US health care workforce, describes innovative roles for medical assistants (MAs) in the...
California faces laboratory workforce shortages to meet the healthcare demands of the population. This national study compares the California MLT workforce to the rest of the country. The California...
Author(s): Kristine A. Himmerick, Ginachukwu Amah and Susan Chapman
Community health workers (CHWs) and promotores de salud are playing an increasingly important role in community-based and clinical care settings. This research, supported by the Blue Shield of...
Author(s): Susan Chapman, Onyi Okwandu, Jennifer Schindel and Jacqueline Miller
There is a widely accepted observation that the current health care delivery model in the U.S was not developed to manage care needs associated with extended life expectancy and growing rates of...
Author(s): Aubri Kottek, Zoey Stafford, and Joanne Spetz
The Black population in the US experiences disparities in oral health. Black adults are twice as likely to have unmet dental needs when compared to Whites and face many barriers to accessing dental...
Author(s): Jean Calvo, Cynthia Wides and Paul Gates
