Certified Nurse Midwives Chiropractors Dental Hygienists Dentists Licensed Practical Nurses Nurse Practitioners Occupational Therapists Occupational Therapy Assistants Optometrists Pharmacists Physicians Physician Assistants Primary Care Physicians Registered Nurses Podiatrists Practicing Psychologists Psychological Associates Physical Therapists Physical Therapist Assistants Respiratory Therapists
2011 Health Professionals per 10,000 Population: Maps
Certified Nurse Midwives Dental Hygienists Dentists Licensed Practical Nurses Nurse Practitioners Occupational Therapists Occupational Therapy Assistants Optometrists Pharmacists Physical Therapist Assistants Physical Therapists Physicians Physician Assistants Podiatrists Primary Care Physicians Practicing Psychologists Psychological Associates Registered Nurses Respiratory Therapists
2012 Health Professionals per 10,000 Population: Maps
Certified Nurse Midwives Chiropractors Dental Hygienists Dentists Licensed Practical Nurses Nurse Practitioners Occupational Therapists Occupational Therapy Assistants Optometrists Pharmacists Physical Therapist Assistants Physical Therapists Physicians Podiatrists Primary Care Physicians Psychologists Psychological Associates Primary Care Physicians Respiratory Therapists
The Role of Physical and Occupational Therapists in the Acute to Post-Acute Care Transition (2014-15)
Investigators: Janet Freburger, PT, PhD (now at the University of Pittsburgh); Anna Johnson, PhD; Dongmei Li, MS. Background: Medicare spending for post-acute care has increased considerably in the past decade with evidence of significant geographic variation in the use of these services. Acute care hospitals and each post-acute setting also have their own separate… Read more »
Diffusion of Physicians and Access to Primary Care: The Role of Person, Program, and Place (2014-15)
Author: Thomas C. Ricketts, PhD, MPH Background: Federal and state policies try to influence physician location choices using a combination of programmatic or extrinsic factors (e.g. bonus payments, subsidized loans) and personal or intrinsic factors (e.g. promoting volunteerism, orienting trainees to underserved populations and selecting motivated students) to encourage physicians to practice in communities where the… Read more »
Understanding How the Diffusion of Physicians Creates Areas of Underservice (2014-15)
Investigators: Thomas Ricketts, PhD; Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP; Andy Knapton, MSc Background: States and the federal government devote substantial resources to influence physicians to practice in underserved areas. Like the general population, the physician workforce is mobile. About 20% of the active employed physician workforce will relocate to another county within a five-year period. Federal… Read more »
Making Use of Workforce Projections to Inform the Graduate Medical Education Policy Debate in the United States (2014-15)
Investigators: Erin P. Fraher PhD MPP, Andy Knapton MSc Background: There is intense policy debate over whether the nation should expand graduate medical education (GME) or redistribute existing slots to high-need specialties and geographies. The recently released Institute of Medicine (IOM) report recommends creating a GME Policy Council to use data and workforce projections to… Read more »
Comparison of Specialty Distribution of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in North Carolina, 1997-2013 (2013-14)
Authors:Perri Morgan, PhD, PA-C; Anna Johnson, PhD, MSPH; Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Background:As healthcare demand in the United States is expected to grow, increased use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) is seen as a partial solution to potential physician shortages. NPs and PAs can change specialties throughout their careers and may constitute… Read more »
Assessing Shifts in Outpatient Visits to Physicians of Other Specialties in Rural Areas with Shortages of Cardiologists and Gastroenterologists: A Preliminary Analysis (2013-14)
PI: Donald Pathman, co-PI: Mark Holmes Project purpose: This project seeks to quantify how the local availability of physicians of various sub-specialties affects the scope and mix of services provided by family physicians and general internists. Project results: A policy brief examining the “plasticity” of the scope of services provided by primary care physicians to… Read more »
Workforce Transformations Needed to Staff Value-Based Models of Care (2013-14)
Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Rachel Machta, BS, Jacqueline Halladay, MD, MPH Abstract: Secretary Burwell recently announced that by 2018, 50% of Medicare payments will be tied to value through alternative payment and care delivery models. What will this shift to value-based payment models mean for the workforce? This paper synthesizes the existing body of evidence… Read more »
North Carolina Health Professions Data System
One of the most comprehensive and continuously maintained state-level data systems available to track the supply and distribution of health professionals in the nation.
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action Research Manager
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action (CFA), a national campaign that seeks to advance comprehensive health care change by fully utilizing the expertise and experience of all nurses.
An Open Source Model for Projecting Physician Shortages in the United States
The question of whether the United States is facing a physician shortage is a hotly contested topic. Some projections have estimated a shortfall of between 85,000-200,000 physicians by 2020 but other analysts have suggested that supply is not the issue, rather it is the distribution of physicians both geographically and between specialties that is most… Read more »
Assessing the Workforce Needs of Patient Centered Medical Homes in North Carolina
This group of leaders will draw on the nationally recognized health workforce data, the analytic capabilities of the North Carolina Health Professions Data System (HPDS) and the expertise of health workforce researchers and policy experts from the University of North Carolina’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research to assess the workforce needs of patient centered medical homes
Technical Support for Health Costs and Access Disparities in Appalachia
UNC-CH Sheps staff will construct a county level database for the Appalachian region using publicly available and proprietary data sources and use these data to develop indices of health care needs and capacity.
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