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Preventing Rural Workforce by Design

Description
Argues that the lack of primary care physicians in rural America could have been and can still be avoided. Discusses how policies aimed to attract recent graduates to primary healthcare, rather than specialty healthcare, can help address disparities between rural and urban healthcare.
Author(s)
Robert Bowman, Michael Halasy
Citation
Rural and Remote Health, 14(2), 2852
Date
06/2014
Type
Document
Tagged as
Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Policy · Primary care · Rural-urban differences