... acknowledge care inside health care facilities and in conjunction with community services. It reveals that family caregivers — untrained, undersupported, and unseen — constitute a “shadow workforce,” acting as geriatric case managers, medical record keepers, paramedics, and patient advocates to fill dangerous...

...Daniel M. Fox Policy to subsidize the education of health professionals in the United States has become contentious and uncertain. This article examines the politics of workforce policy in the twentieth century, emphasizing the years since World War II. From early in the century until the 1970s...

...Roger J. Bulger Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Commentary From “Piety to Platitudes to Pork” to What? The Changing Politics of Health Workforce Policy: A View form University-Based...

... Journal of Medicine 334 : 892 -896. Commentary Health Care for All, Health Care for Me: The Personal Nature of Health Workforce Policy Joel D. Howell...

...Michael S. Sparer Nearly every state has enacted its own effort to change both the composition and the practice patterns of America’s medical workforce. At the same time, the health care marketplace is altering the nation’s medical workforce, encouraging more medical students to enter primary care...

...Robert B. Hudson Peter P. Budetti, Richard V. Burkhauser, Janice M. Gregory, and H. Allan Hunt, eds. Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce . Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001. 519 pp. $43.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. © 2002 by Duke...

... Association Consensus Statement on Physician Workforce. Advisory no. 97 -9, 28 February. ———. 2000 . AAMC Data Book: Statistical Information Related to Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals . Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges. Barer, M. L., and G. L. Stoddart. 1992 . Toward...

... alternative payment methods that would encourage hospitals and medical staffs to adopt a more cost-effective anesthesia workforce mix. Lessons for other nonphysician personnel conclude the article. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Abenstein , J. P. , and M. A. Warner...

...Joanna Bisgaier; Karin V. Rhodes; Daniel Polsky Abstract This article explores how a specialty type's local workforce capacity and a specialty practice's location relate to the likelihood of denying care to children covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) while...

...Scott L. Greer; Robert D. Fannion Abstract It has become increasingly common to hear a business case for wellness that emphasizes the benefits of having a healthy workforce. This is essentially the same as the case for employers to train their workers; training a worker and investing in the health...

... generalists and 88 percent are specialists. While it is undisputed that US physicians can choose to train in a striking array of medical specialties and subspecialties not seen elsewhere, the perception that the United States has a specialty-dominated workforce is not accurate. The US definition of generalist...

... countries whose differing health care systems experience similar problems in maintaining their physician workforce. We used descriptive statistics and factor and correlation analyses to evaluate physicians' responses to a self-administered questionnaire. Our study revealed that German physician respondents...

... of employer-based coverage; problems and solutions for America's aging workforce; poor customer service in Medicare; the “Medicaid Stigma”; the promise of immigration; and the trade-offs between access, quality, and cost in the American system. Finally, Vladeck offers a silver lining to the current...

... the opportunity to build policy capacity in the public health workforce. We trace its emergence over the past fifty years, show its value, and identify major challenges ahead. evidence-based policy translation public health law research big data transdisciplinary public health law legal...

... this approach in the safety net. CHA's strategies include care redesign, financial realignment, workforce transformation, and development of external partnerships. Early results show some improvement in access, patient experience, quality, and utilization; however, the potential efficiencies will not...

... Association of American Medical Colleges In his article of this symposium, Daniel M. Fox suggests that health professions workforce policy has entered the era of pork. He alludes to the fact that several individual government programs, both state and federal, affect the supply and mix of health...

...-contact, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated care.” Laugesen's cross-national analysis of physician workforce data, allowing for inclusion of specialists who perform some of these functions, suggests that 37 percent of our physicians provide primary care. Thus, once the definition of primary care...

... Association, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine,American Osteopathic Association, Association of Academic Health Centers, and National Medical Association. 1997 . Consensus Statement on the Physician Workforce . Available online at aamc.org . Barer, M. 2002 . New Opportunities for...

... turns to the nation’s fragmented and inadequate system of end-of-life care. In their article, Ann Bookman and Mona Harrington examine how family caregivers prop up our dysfunctional health care system and also describe the burdens imposed on this “shadow workforce.” Taken together, these...

... Plat- itudes to Pork: The Changing Politics of Health Workforce Policy.” The audience for each event consisted mainly of leaders in education for the health professions and employees of their trade associations. The latter listened with drawn faces until past and present deans and university vice...