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Public Policies to Promote Community-based and Interdisciplinary Health Professions Education
04-29-00
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 settings by interdisciplinary teams. Yet, health professions students in the US continue to receive most...
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Geographic Distribution of Dentists in California Dental Shortage Areas
01-01-00
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 funding for existing programs. Recent research has shown that many Californians do not receive regular...
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Recreating Health Professional Practice for a New Century
12-01-98
This fourth and final major report of the Pew Health Professions Commission comes at the end of the most dynamic decade ever faced by the nation’s health professionals. As disruptive as this period has been, however, it may only have been the prelude. The health care system in the US will continue...
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Strengthening Consumer Protection: Priorities for Health Care Workforce Regulation
10-31-98
Health care workforce regulation plays a critical role in consumer protection. For most of this century, the state regulation of health care occupations and professions has established a minimum standard for safe practice and removed the egregiously incompetent. To become a more viable element of...
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The Task Force on Accreditation of Health Professions Education: Working Papers
06-01-98
With the rapid pace of change in the educational and health care systems today, the ability of health professions education accreditation to respond to the needs of the professions, educational institutions, students and the ultimate consumers of health services has come into question. These...
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Considering the Future of Health Care Workforce Regulation
12-01-97
In December 1995 the Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation released their findings and recommendations in a report entitled Reforming Health Care Workforce Regulation: Policy Considerations for the 21st Century. The report put forth ten recommendations for reform and offered policy options...
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Reforming Health Care Workforce Regulation: Policy Considerations for the 21st Century
12-01-95
Though it has served us well in the past, health care workforce regulation is out of step with today’s health care needs and expectations. It is criticized for increasing costs, restricting managerial and professional flexibility, limiting access to care, and having an equivocal relationship to...
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Critical Challenges: Revitalizing the Health Professions for the Twenty-First Century
12-01-95
American health care is experiencing fundamental change. What was recently conceived as a set of policy changes for reform is now being lent the form and weight of institutional reality by the enormous power of the trillion-dollar health care market. In five brief years the organizational,...
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Health Professions Education and Relationship-centered Care
12-01-94
The biomedical model has formed the foundation and defined the character of contemporary American medical practice and education. There is a growing perception, however, that the biomedical model cannot fully reflect the broad clinical realities of modern health care and that practitioners must...
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From Affirmative Action to Health: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature Regarding the Impact of Affirmative Action
04-01-94
Affirmative action has been used by institutions and individuals in the United States since the 1960s to increase the participation of women and racial and ethnic minorities in employment, contracting and higher education. This report utilizes a broad perspective to review the data and research...