Download or read book The Physician Shortage Crisis in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physician Shortage Crisis in Rural America Who Will Treat Our Patients S Hrg 110 26 February 20 2007 110 1 Field Hearing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physician Shortage Crisis in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physician Shortage in Rural America written by Janet Kline and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE CRISIS IN RURAL FIELD HEARING S HRG 110 26 COM ON HEALTH EDUCATION LABOR AND PENSIONS U S SENATE 110TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION written by and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caring for the Country written by Howard K. Rabinowitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -An excellent resource for pre-med students and medical school advisors. -Possible adoptions for courses in Medical Humanities (pre-med undergraduate and medical school/graduate, first two years) and Family Practice Clerkship (medical school/graduate) -In-depth profiles reveal the everyday reality of the shortage through poignant stories and candid dialogue. -The foreword is written by Dr. Robert Taylor (Family Medicine; Fundamentals of Family Medicine)
Download or read book Reducing the Rural Physician Shortage in the Pacific Northwest written by Hilary Elise Gossler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Distribution and Health Care Challenges in Rural and Inner city Areas written by Council on Graduate Medical Education (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary Care Provider Shortage written by Pohl Ron and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, grade: B+, Loyola University Chicago, language: English, abstract: We are proposing the following solutions to the challenge of primary healthcare provider shortages in rural Washington: that undergraduate medical education (UME) pathway in the two medical schools in the state be altered; visa-waivers, loan-forgiveness and direct incentive programs expanded; and residency funding be increased. These are workable with the right support and resources. We understand that primary healthcare physician shortages will worsen more and more over the next decade if nothing is done now; and there is no doubt that communities have been feeling the impacts of shortages. Since none of the plans proposed here can work to reduce the expected decrease, the right combination of strategies will results in an increase in the number of primary healthcare physicians per population in rural Washington, which is the main aim of this proposal.
Download or read book Rural Physician Shortages and Policy Intervention written by Amrita Kulka and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fourteen percent of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, only ten percent of primary care physicians practice medicine there; populations in areas with physician shortages have measurably worse health outcomes. We analyze the effects of incentive programs intended to eliminate physician shortages. Using a differences-in-differences approach, we estimate that student loan forgiveness programs cause an increase of three physicians per rural county. We then estimate a model of physician location decisions and find that physicians are unresponsive to differences in compensation and prefer to live in their home state. Consequently, current programs are too small to eliminate shortages.
Download or read book Hollowing Out the Middle written by Patrick J. Carr and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communities In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; “seekers,” who head off to war to see what the world beyond offers; and “returners,” who eventually circle back to their hometowns. What surprised them most was that adults in the community were playing a pivotal part in the town’s decline by pushing the best and brightest young people to leave. In a timely, new afterword, Carr and Kefalas address the question “so what can be done to save our communities?” They profile the efforts of dedicated community leaders actively resisting the hollowing out of Middle America. These individuals have creatively engaged small town youth—stayers and returners, seekers and achievers—and have implemented a variety of programs to combat the rural brain drain. These stories of civic engagement will certainly inspire and encourage readers struggling to defend their communities.
Download or read book The Rural Healthcare Shortage in the United States written by Madison Nutter and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is facing a major healthcare shortage in rural areas. One-fifth of the U.S. population lives in a rural area and over 75 percent of those are deemed to be in a healthcare professional shortage (McEllistrem-Evenson, 2011). More physicians in particular are needed in rural areas. Currently, the primary needs of the rural areas are family medicine and primary care physicians. However, less medical school students are interested in family medicine than ever before. Rural physicians face additional challenges such that they see more patients than urban physicians, work more hours, and are on-call more often. Despite these challenges, rural physicians receive approximately the same compensation as physicians working in urban areas (Hart, Lishner, & Rosenblatt, 2005). The patient population in that the rural population tends to be more ill, have worse access to healthcare, are more likely to be in poverty, and typically pursue less education than those living in urban areas (American Academy of Family Physicians, 2015). If these issues go unaddressed, rural people will continue to struggle to receive the adequate healthcare that they deserve and need.
Download or read book Factors Influencing Health Care Access in Rural Health Professional Shortage Areas written by Mary S. Savitsky and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to healthcare is a continuing problem, particularly in rural America. The rising costs of care, the resistance of physician providers to enter primary care medicine or enter practice in isolated settings, the emphasis on curative rather than preventive medicine, restrictions by third party payers, and state practice laws are all factors influencing the access problem in rural America. The providers of care in this country are not all physicians; many are classified as physician extenders. Both physicians and physician extenders tend to choose employment in settings similar to the sites where they receive their clinical training. This may indicate that states without education programs may be at an immediate disadvantage in the struggle to meet primary care health needs. Physician Assistants (PA) are limited in the scope of their practice by state laws which restrict their functionality in healthcare delivery. These laws also impose access barriers by limiting PA availability in sites and facilities which also lack physicians. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between states' enabling legislation for one category of physician extender, the Physician Assistant (PA), and four independent variables; prescribing authority, dispensing authority, satellite practice authority, and the presence of a PA educational program (school) in the state. The dependent variable, proactivity, will be the degree of state health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). may assist states with severe rural health manpower shortages in developing a viable plan for meeting the primary care health needs of their communities. Rural health, Physician assistant, Physician extender, Health care access, HPSA(Health Professional Shortage Area).
Download or read book Strategic Assessment of Options for Alleviating Rural Physician Shortage written by Brenda T. Palmore and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reviews and summarizes the literature on ways to increase the physician manpower in rural areas and develops a portfolio of possible options to alleviate the physician shortage. It provides a summary description of the scientific evidence on approaches to recruiting physicians to rural practice and a checklist organizations can us to assess their strategic options."
Download or read book Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-Rom has same title as book.
Download or read book Health Care in Rural America written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health needs and health services in rural America are key issues directly related to education as well as community well-being. This report examines rural America's access to basic health care services and discusses options for congressional consideration. The focus is on trends in availability of primary and acute rural health care and on factors affecting those trends. The report describes the characteristics of rural populations and health programs, the availability of rural health services and personnel, and delivery of rural maternal and infant health and mental health care services. On each subject, options for congressional action are examined. The federal government currently finances several different types of rural health care programs, and has a strong interest in health care trends. Major declines in inpatient utilization, compounded by increasing amounts of uncompensated care, have undermined the financial health of many rural hospitals, which also are faced with the outmigration of rural residents to urban areas for care. Policy reform options are presented in regard to: (1) improvement of rural health facilities; (2) availability and training of health professionals in rural areas; and (3) enhancing maternal and infant care programs and mental health care programs in rural areas. This document contains numerous charts, graphics, data tables, and appendices that present background information about the study. It also includes a 745-item bibliography and a subject index.
Download or read book Doctor Without Borders written by Alexa Nicole Garcia-Ditta and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jim Luecke, a rural family physician in Alpine, Texas, is one of six doctors responsible for thousands of patients across a sprawling 25,000 square foot remote region of the state. He is a community doctor that travels between three towns to treat patients with various illnesses, injuries and income levels. But his type of general medicine is a dying practice in Texas, especially in rural areas. Texas, with a primary care and family physician shortage likely to get worse over the next several years, faces continued obstacles in providing access to quality healthcare in some of its most isolated areas. Luecke, while he embodies some of the challenges that come with practicing rural medicine, is in some ways an exception to those challenges.
