California's primary care workforce: current supply, characteristics, and pipeline of trainees
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Research report (University of California, San Francisco. Healthforce Center)
- Author(s):
- Coffman, Janet, author Geyn, Igor, author Himmerick, Kristine A., author
- Contributor(s):
- University of California, San Francisco. Healthforce Center, issuing body.
- Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Healthforce Center at UCSF, February 2017
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Workforce -- statistics & numerical data Primary Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Adult African Americans Aged Education, Medical Hispanic Americans Income Middle Aged Nurse Practitioners -- supply & distribution Physicians -- supply & distribution Physicians, Family -- supply & distribution State Government Humans California United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Health care stakeholders are concerned that the supply, distribution, and demographic characteristics of primary care clinicians in California are not adequate to meet the state's needs. In recent years, this concern has stemmed largely from the expansion of Californians' access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The expansion of eligibility for Medi-Cal and the establishment of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, have resulted in a large increase in the number of Californians with health insurance. Although the fate of the ACA is uncertain, other sources of concern about primary care clinician supply in California persist, including population growth, aging of the population, expanding burden of chronic disease, and the needs of low-income people and racial/ethnic groups that have been historically underserved by the health professions. This report presents the most current information on the supply of MDs, DOs, NPs and PAs who provide primary care in California. In the absence of a uniform dataset on the four professions, data from multiple sources were aggregated and analyzed to examine the supply and employment patterns of primary care clinicians and the pipeline of trainees in California. The report finds that previously identified deficits in California's primary care workforce persist and will be exacerbated in the coming decade because large percentages of MDs and NPs are reaching retirement age. Forthcoming reports in this series will forecast the future supply and demand for primary care clinicians and assess primary care workforce development initiatives in other states. Collectively, these reports will enable stakeholders to assess the adequacy of the current primary care workforce, anticipate future gaps in the primary care workforce, and identify effective policies for addressing these needs.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (7 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101745436 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101745436