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Community Health Workers and Promotores in California
09-01-04
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 promotion, case management, and service delivery activities at the community level. This profession...
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An Audit on Clinical Supervision in Primary Care
09-01-04
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 different clinical and managerial grades in the organization. Clinical supervision was varied both in terms...
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The Distribution and Composition of Arizona's Dental Workforce and Practice Patterns: Implications for Access to Care
07-07-04
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 implemented over the past several decades have done little to change the practice patterns of dental...
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Evaluation of Strategies to Recruit Oral Health Care Providers To Underserved Areas of California
07-01-04
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 there are no definitive numbers, between 3 and 9 million Californians are lacking access to care or have...
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Is There A Doctor in the House? An Examination of the Physician Workforce in California over the Past 25 Years
06-11-04
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 important new findings about long-range trends in physician supply in California, as well as a...
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Legal and Regulatory Obligations to Provide Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Emergency Department Services
06-10-04
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 and encourage health care organizations to provide culturally and linguistically accessible health...
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Nurse Staffing and Hospital Ownership in California
05-01-04
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 data exist regarding nurse staffing as it relates to owner type or specific corporate owner. With...
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Medical Assistants in California
05-01-04
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 ambulatory care setting; they are an integral part of any medical practice. This issue brief provides...
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How Much Public Health in Public Health Nursing Practice?
05-01-04
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 not been well documented. The purpose of this survey was to investigate the practice activities,...
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California’s Nursing Labor Force: Demand, Supply, and Shortages (2004)
01-30-04
This report provides a descriptive overview of the nursing labor market with a focus on the institutions and regulations that affect the labor market. The authors provide in-depth information about the demand for nurses, and explore the types of health care providers that employ nurses and the...
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Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics in California
01-01-04
EMTs and Paramedics are essential members of the health care workforce. They are an intrinsic part of California's and the nation's emergency medical system. This issue brief examines this workforce in California where the number of EMT’s and Paramedics per capita are below the U.S. average. Lack...
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Caregiver Training Initiative: Final Process and Outcome Evaluation Report
12-08-03
The intent of the Caregiver Training Initiative (CTI) was to increase the number of health caregivers in the State of California. This initiative, which is part of the State’s Aging with Dignity Initiative, provided $25 million through competitive grants to twelve Regional Collaboratives statewide...
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The Future Of The Nurse Shortage: Will Wage Increases Close The Gap?
12-01-03
In recent years the U.S. media have been reporting a shortage of registered nurses (RNs). In theory, labor-market shortages are self-correcting; wage increases will bring labor markets into equilibrium, and policy intervention is not necessary. In this paper we develop a simple forecasting model...
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2002 Wage and Vacancy Survey of Medical Laboratories Part II: Modest Easement of Staffing Shortage
10-13-03
Part I of the 2002 Wage and Vacancy Study appeared in the September issue of Laboratory Medicine.1 That report focused on the response rates by laboratory type and the wages associated with 12 categories of clinical laboratory staff. The detailed methodology related to the design of the...
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Admission Policies and Attrition Rates in California Community College Nursing Programs: A Report to Senator Charles Poochigian and the California Postsecondary Education Commission
10-06-03
Most analyses of California's nursing shortage find that too few nurses are being educated to meet future demand. Coffman and Spetz (1999) estimate that state nursing programs need to educate an additional 3,600 students per year between 2000 and 2010, and 5,000 more per year between 2010 and 2020...
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Health Care Providers’ Language Assistance Responsibilities: Major Federal and California Requirements
10-01-03
A number of federal and state laws address the need to provide health care in a language that the patient understands. This two-page overview of major California and Federal lists requirements for health care providers to provide language assistance to patients who require these services. The...
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Diagnostic Imaging Professionals in California
10-01-03
The diagnostic imaging professions provide vital services in the modern health care system, and as with other types of healthcare workers such as registered nurses and clinical laboratory scientists, there is a current labor shortage within these professions. This issue brief examines this...
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2002 Wage and Vacancy Survey of Medical Laboratories Part I: Salaries Continue to Show Moderate Gains
09-13-03
The 2002 Wage and Vacancy Report will spanned 2 issues of Laboratory Medicine. This issue focuses on the salary data. The October issue will focus on hiring practices and vacancies.
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Who is Caring for the Underserved? A Comparison of Primary Care Physicians and Nonphysician Clinicians in California and Washington
07-01-03
PURPOSE: Little is known about whether different types of physician and nonphysician primary care clinicians vary in their propensity to care for underserved populations. The objective of this study was to compare the geographic distribution and patient populations of physician and nonphysician...
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Respiratory Care Practitioners in California
07-01-03
Respiratory care practitioners (RCPs) comprise a critical sector of the allied health care workforce though the profession is not well understood or highly visible to the public, even though RCPs are very involved with direct patient care. This issue brief examines this workforce in California...
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A Framework for Teaching Medical Students and Residents about Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
07-01-03
PURPOSE: To create a framework for teaching the knowledge and skills of practice-based learning and improvement to medical students and residents based on proven, effective strategies.
METHOD: The authors conducted a Medline search of English-language articles published between 1996 and May 2001,...
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The Clinical Laboratory Workforce in California
06-01-03
The clinical laboratory workforce comprises a critical sector of the healthcare workforce, and as with other types of healthcare workers such as registered nurses and pharmacists, there have been documented shortages of these workers for several years. This issue brief examines this workforce in...
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Chiropractic Care in California
06-01-03
With 65,000 practitioners nationwide, chiropractic is the third largest “primary” health profession in the US (behind medicine and dentistry). This issue brief examines the chiropractic workforce in California. Beginning with its history and recent growth, the report looks into supply, demand and...
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Health Care Interpreters in California
04-01-03
California has a considerable and increasing need for interpretive services in health care. Currently one in every five Californians, over 6 million people, qualify as Limited English Proficient (LEP) and could be expected to benefit directly from improved interpretive services and the attendant...
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Minimum Staffing Ratios: The California Workforce Initiative Survey
03-11-03
Minimum Staffing Ratios: The California Workforce Initiative Survey
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Pharmacy Technicians in California: Snapshot of an Emerging Profession
03-01-03
The pharmacy technician profession is experiencing rapid change and growth, mirroring changes in the pharmacy profession and in pharmaceutical treatment. This issue brief examines the growth and evolution of this profession as it has emerged over the last 10 years in retail, hospital, and other...
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The Mental Health Workforce: Who's Meeting California's Needs?
02-01-03
Over the past two decades there has been a growing call for parity between mental and physical health care. Mental health services have been stigmatized, provided unsystematically, and they came late to the third party reimbursement process. Today the field is still beset by a vast array of often...
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Nursing for the Public's Health: A Profile of Public Health Nurses in Five California Counties
12-07-02
This report provides data on the demographics of the PHN workforce in five counties in California; the educational preparation of the PHN workforce; the job market and employment issues for the PHN workforce; and the scope of PHN practice. Although the study was limited to five counties, these...
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Nursing For The Public’s Health: A Profile of Public Health Nurses in Five California Counties
12-01-02
Public health nurses (PHNs) make up the largest group of public health workers and are important health care providers for a variety of underserved populations, yet data about PHN demographics and practice are limited. This report provides data on the demographics of the PHN workforce in five...
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California Physicians 2002: Practice and Perceptions
12-01-02
As health care in California continues to experience major changes and challenges, it is important to periodically check the pulse of one key group of participants in this system: the state’s physicians. This report presents the results from the 2001/2002 UCSF California Physician Survey. The...