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Southeast Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies
The Southeast Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies (http://www.healthworkforce.unc.edu/) is supported by a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis in the Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA, and is one of six federally designated regional workforce analysis centers. The Center conducts research and analysis with the goal of improving access to an appropriate and effective health workforce in the Southeast and North Carolina. The Center draws on the resources of the Chapel Hill Campus with its five health professions schools: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, public health, and nursing, as well as the 16-campus University of North Carolina system to respond to the information and analysis needs of health workforce policy makers in the state, the region, and the nation. The Center also collects and maintains data describing the need for and supply of health professionals, and makes these data available for research and policy analysis purposes. The Center’s current research agenda consists of seven projects. Each project will produce different products, such as research papers, articles, or informational pamphlets, depending on the nature of the work involved.
The Center’s current and ongoing projects are:
- Allied Health Workforce Needs Assessments: Lesson Learned
- Developing Productivity Measures for Workforce Programs
- Development of Model Access to Nursing
- Development of Model Physician Data Standards
- Do NHSC Dentist Alumni Remain in the Oral Health Safety Net?
- Outcomes of Racially Matched Doctors and Patients in the Rural South
- Physician Supply Modeling Review
- Physician Workforce Growth Among Counties in the Rural South: A Consequence of Favorable Recruitment, Favorable Retention, or Both?
- Population Characteristics and Nursing Employment Patterns
- Service Requiring Scholarships and Loan Repayment for Nurses
- Technical Assistance to Region IV
Publications
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How Adults' Access to Outpatient Physician Services Relates to the Local Supply of Primary Care Physicians in the Rural Southeast
Author(s): Donald E. Pathman, Thomas C. Ricketts, Thomas R. Konrad
Citation: Health Services Research, 41(1), 79-102
Date: 2006
For adults as a whole in the rural South and for the elderly there, low local primary care physician densities are associated with travel inconvenience but not convincingly with other aspects of access to outpatient care. Access for those insured under Medicaid and the uninsured, however, is in more ways sensitive to local physician densities.
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Workforce Issues in Rural Areas: A Focus on Policy Equity
Author(s): Thomas C. Ricketts
Citation: American Journal of Public Health, 95(1), 42-48
Date: 01 / 2005
Reviews the geographic distribution of 6 classes of health professionals: physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, mental health professionals, and public health professionals. Describes the government and private policies and programs intended to affect the geographic distribution of these health professionals.
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