Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health workforce
Expanding the Dental Team: Increasing Access to Care in Public Settings
Looks at 3 examples of midlevel dental providers working to expand care to underserved populations. Highlights three practices in Minnesota, California, and Alaska, the latter deploying dental health aide therapists to distant rural locations.
Date: 06/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Pew Charitable Trusts
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Looks at 3 examples of midlevel dental providers working to expand care to underserved populations. Highlights three practices in Minnesota, California, and Alaska, the latter deploying dental health aide therapists to distant rural locations.
Date: 06/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Pew Charitable Trusts
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Preventing Rural Workforce by Design
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
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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
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Alternative Workforce Models Chart
A table identifying and describing the alternative dental workforce models used in underserved and rural areas by state.
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: American Dental Education Association
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A table identifying and describing the alternative dental workforce models used in underserved and rural areas by state.
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: American Dental Education Association
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Affordable Care Act Opportunities for Community Health Workers: How Medicaid Preventive Services, Medicaid Health Homes, and State Innovation Models are Including Community Health Workers
Discusses how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided substantial incentives and opportunities to increase the role of community health workers (CHWs) in state Medicaid programs in urban and rural healthcare facilities (e.g. Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers).
Author(s): Amy Katzen, Maggie Morgan
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
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Discusses how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided substantial incentives and opportunities to increase the role of community health workers (CHWs) in state Medicaid programs in urban and rural healthcare facilities (e.g. Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers).
Author(s): Amy Katzen, Maggie Morgan
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
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Support for Rural Recruitment and Practice among U.S. Nurse Practitioner Education Programs
Examines nurse practitioner (NP) education programs across the U.S. to identify those actively promoting NP practice in rural areas. Describes their use of education methods that may promote rural practice and identifies barriers to recruiting rural students and providing rural NP clinical training.
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Louise Kaplan, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Stefanie Ostergard, Davis G. Patterson
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Examines nurse practitioner (NP) education programs across the U.S. to identify those actively promoting NP practice in rural areas. Describes their use of education methods that may promote rural practice and identifies barriers to recruiting rural students and providing rural NP clinical training.
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Louise Kaplan, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Stefanie Ostergard, Davis G. Patterson
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Rural Practice, Keeping Physicians In
Discusses recruitment, retention, and training of rural physicians. Includes recommendations and key legislative and government issues addressing this issue.
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
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Discusses recruitment, retention, and training of rural physicians. Includes recommendations and key legislative and government issues addressing this issue.
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
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The National Alliance for HIV Education and Workforce Development (NAHEWD) Recommendations for the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs)
Describes the vision of the NAHEWD for AETCs of the future regarding HIV. Recommendations include increasing the interprofessional HIV healthcare workforce needed to provide HIV specialty and primary care. Also recommends increasing education for healthcare workforce who work with HIV patients such as primary care providers who are new to HIV care, specialists in non-HIV areas, and HIV care providers. Reports that in the last fiscal year (FY12-13), 21% of AETC trainees practiced in rural settings.
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: AIDS Education and Training Centers National Coordinating Resource Center
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Describes the vision of the NAHEWD for AETCs of the future regarding HIV. Recommendations include increasing the interprofessional HIV healthcare workforce needed to provide HIV specialty and primary care. Also recommends increasing education for healthcare workforce who work with HIV patients such as primary care providers who are new to HIV care, specialists in non-HIV areas, and HIV care providers. Reports that in the last fiscal year (FY12-13), 21% of AETC trainees practiced in rural settings.
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: AIDS Education and Training Centers National Coordinating Resource Center
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Trends in Electronic Health Record System Use among Office-Based Physicians: United States, 2007–2012
Reports trends in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by office-based physicians. Covers use of both basic and fully functional EHR systems. Includes data for metro and non-metro areas and data by practice size comparing primary care physicians to other specialties.
Author(s): Chun-Ju Hsiao, Esther Hing, Jill Ashman
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Reports trends in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by office-based physicians. Covers use of both basic and fully functional EHR systems. Includes data for metro and non-metro areas and data by practice size comparing primary care physicians to other specialties.
Author(s): Chun-Ju Hsiao, Esther Hing, Jill Ashman
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
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Ready or Not? How Community Health Centers View Their Preparedness to Care for Newly Insured Patients
Surveys Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) on their preparedness for the anticipated growth in patients due to more people having obtained health insurance under the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. Addresses workforce challenges and mentions rural throughout.
Author(s): Melinda K. Abrams, Michelle M. Doty, Jamie Ryan, Dominique Hall, Pamela Riley
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
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Surveys Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) on their preparedness for the anticipated growth in patients due to more people having obtained health insurance under the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. Addresses workforce challenges and mentions rural throughout.
Author(s): Melinda K. Abrams, Michelle M. Doty, Jamie Ryan, Dominique Hall, Pamela Riley
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Commonwealth Fund
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Mississippi Scholarship Program Helps Create More Rural Physicians
The Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program is addressing the state's health care crisis by providing incentives for medical students to practice in rural areas.
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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The Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program is addressing the state's health care crisis by providing incentives for medical students to practice in rural areas.
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 05/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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