Workforce Issues in Rural Areas

A Focus on Policy Equity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11033479
AutoresThomas C Ricketts (0000-0002-5262-4849, Thomas C. Ricketts is with the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill., autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume95
Fascículo1
Páginas42-48
Data de publicação2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2004.047597
PMID15623856
PMCIDPMC1449848
OpenAlexW2105912973
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas30

Rural communities in the United States are served by relatively fewer health care professionals than urban or suburban areas. I review the geographic distribution of 6 classes of health professionals and describe the multiple government and private policies and programs intended to affect their geographic distribution. These programs can be classified into 3 categories—coercive, normative, and utilitarian—that characterize the major policy levers used to influence practice location decisions. Health workforce policies must be normative to ensure equity for rural communities, but goals in this area can be achieved only through a balance of utilitarian and coercive mechanisms

Affect (linguistics) · Business · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Equity (law) · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Health equity · Normative · Political science · Public economics · Public policy · Public relations · Rural area · Workforce · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Psychology · Health Policy