Widely distributed to policymakers in California and nationally, this report offered a comprehensive profile of the California physician workforce in the year 2000. Using existing and original data,...
Author(s): Catherine Dower, Tina McRee, Kevin Grumbach, Bram Briggance, Sunita Mutha, Janet M. Coffman, Karen Vranizan, Andrew Bindman, Ed O'Neil
Today, for a host of internal and external factors, many of the health professions appear to be losing their appeal to potential workers. Nursing, nationwide and in California, has become a pressing...
Author(s): Catherine Dower, Tina McRee, Bram Briggance, Ed O'Neil
For a host of complex and interrelated reasons California may not have adequate numbers of nurses with appropriate skills over the coming decades. This problem is just rising to the attention of the...
Author(s): Janet M. Coffman, Joanne Spetz, Jean Ann Seago, Emily Rosenoff, Ed O'Neil
In California, approximately 4.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries are eligible for dental services, yet fewer than half (44%) utilize these services on an annual basis. While several factors may...
Author(s): Carolyn Manuel-Barkin, Elizabeth Mertz, Kevin Grumbach
California and the nation now face an oral disease situation that is of a crisis nature. The situation has developed over several decades and involves a complex set of problems, institutions,...
Author(s): Elizabeth Mertz, Carolyn Manuel-Barkin, Beverly Isman, Ed O'Neil
As California implements its minimum staffing legislation, it becomes increasingly important that researchers continue to examine the relationship between RN staffing and quality of care. Research...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Jean Ann Seago, Janet Coffman, Emily Rosenoff, Ed O'Neil
In a March 1998 Journal of Nursing Administration article, I reported that nurse staffing did not, in fact, decline through 1996 in California, where concerns about nurse staffing have been prominent...
CONTEXT: Many rural and inner-city communities in the United States have persistent shortages of health professionals. In addition, health services are increasingly delivered in community-based...
Author(s): Janet M. Coffman, Tim Henderson, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs) play growing roles in the health care workforce. Experts recommended in the mid-1990s that their numbers be...
Author(s): Kevin Grumbach, Janet Coffman, Elizabeth Mertz, Emily Rosenoff
Access to dental services in California is an issue of increasing concern to federal and state policy makers, as demonstrated by both new legislation addressing access to dental care and increased...
Author(s): Elizabeth Mertz, Kevin Grumbach, Laurie MacIntosh, Janet M. Coffman
