The public health workforce [0.03%]
公共卫生队伍
Kristine Gebbie,Jacqueline Merrill,Hugh H Tilson
Kristine Gebbie
Defining the public health workforce and specifying its performance requirements present equal challenges as the nation anticipates public health needs for the twenty-first century. The core group of professionals employed by government pub...
John R Lumpkin,Margaret S Richards
John R Lumpkin
The public health information infrastructure is undergoing a transformation that is enabled by changes in health care informatics. The implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, the patient me...
Elizabeth Fee,Theodore M Brown
Elizabeth Fee
Many complain about public health's weak infrastructure and poor capacity to respond to threats of bioterrorism. Such complaints are but the anxiety-heightened expression of a periodic rediscovery of the deficiencies and unfulfilled promise...
Nicole Lurie
Nicole Lurie
Strengthening the nation's public health infrastructure: historic challenge, unprecedented opportunity [0.03%]
加强国家公共卫生基础设施：历史性挑战与前所未有的机遇
Edward L Baker Jr,Jeffrey P Koplan
Edward L Baker Jr
The nation's attention has been focused on the vital need for a strong public health infrastructure to protect community health. In this paper we provide an overview of progress during the past decade and point to immediate challenges and o...
John K Iglehart
John K Iglehart
Jordan J Cohen,Barbara A Gabriel,Charles Terrell
Jordan J Cohen
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the health care workforce is essential for the adequate provision of culturally competent care to our nation's burgeoning minority communities. A diverse health care workforce will help to expan...
Who cares for older adults? Workforce implications of an aging society [0.03%]
老年社会的照护问题及劳动力供给老龄化的影响
Christine Tassone Kovner,Mathy Mezey,Charlene Harrington
Christine Tassone Kovner
There is a critical shortage of geriatrics-prepared health care professionals. In 2002 more than thirty-five million people were age sixty-five and older, and 23 percent of them reported poor or fair health. Older adults use 23 percent of a...
The growing challenge of providing oral health care services to all Americans [0.03%]
向所有美国人提供口腔保健服务的挑战越来越大
Elizabeth Mertz,Edward O&#x;Neil
Elizabeth Mertz
By many measures, the practice of dentistry has improved for the dentist over the past decade. Hours of work are down, and compensation is increasing. However, there is a growing disconnect between the dominant pattern of practice of the pr...
Janet M Coffman,Jean Ann Seago,Joanne Spetz
Janet M Coffman
Many registered nurses believe that nurse staffing in acute care hospitals is inadequate. In 1999 California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. State officials announced draft ratios in January 2...