North Carolina’s Rural Health Workforce: Challenges and Strategies
July 31, 2013: North Carolina Institute of Medicine Rural Health Task Force
Main Themes
- Health professional supply in rural areas has remained stagnant
- Gap between well supplied and not well supplied continues to grow
- How can we address these challenges?
- Train workers in rural areas
- Pay incentives to work in rural areas
- Recruit workers who grew up rural areas
- Change practice models in rural areas
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