This brief provides an overview of an emerging and unique workforce in California. Community health workers (CHWs) and promotores are public health professionals who carry out a variety of health...
Author(s): Dennis Keane, Christine Nielsen, Catherine Dower
This article reports on an audit of clinical supervision in one primary care trust (PCT). Data were collected by telephone interviews with 44 respondents from a range of professions occupying...
Author(s): Louise Barriball, Alison While, Ulrike Muench
The author reviews the causes of nursing shortages and surpluses and examines data from California hospitals to demonstrate how these cycles are expressed in the demand for and wages of nurses....
The problem of access to dental care services gained national attention following the publication of the first ever Surgeon General’s report on Oral Health. However, dental policies and programs...
Central to efforts to increase access to dental care has been a focus on the supply, distribution and diversity of a workforce willing and able to provide care for underserved populations. While...
Author(s): Elizabeth Mertz, Gena Anderson, Kevin Grumbach, Ed O'Neil
California citizens and lawmakers should be aware of how the state's physicians have responded to the dramatic changes in health care in the United States over the past 25 years. This report presents...
Author(s): Janet M. Coffman, Brian Quinn, Timothy Brown, Richard Scheffler, Nicholas C. Petris
Language and cultural barriers to medical care are a large and growing problem in the United States. A number of federal and state laws, as well as professional and accreditation standards, require...
Author(s): Elizabeth A Jacobs, Alice Hm Chen, Leah Karliner, Julia Puebla Fortierd, Sunita Mutha
Medical assistants are multi-skilled health care practitioners who are trained to assist physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners with administrative and/or clinical duties in an...
Public health nursing (PHN) practice is defined by an emphasis on population health issues rather than individually focused clinical interventions, but the actual scope and focus of PHN practice have...
Author(s): Kevin Grumbach, Janet Miller, Eliabeth Mertz, Len Finocchio
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship between nurse staffing and owner type or specific corporate owner in California acute care hospitals.
BACKGROUND: Little empirical...
Author(s): Jean Ann Seago, Joanne Spetz, Shannon Mitchell
