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- Title
Strengthening Primary Care to Bolster the Health Care Safety Net.
- Authors
Forrest, Christopher B.
- Abstract
The article reflects on how to strengthen primary care in order to bolster the health care safety net. It argues that United States physicians are not fairly distributed. Therefore, there are pockets of medically underserved communities. Rural health centers have more difficulty in filling physician vacancies than urban centers. Three government physician workforce programs, including National Health Service Corps medical school scholarships, federal and state medical school loan repayment, and the J-1 visa waiver program for international medical graduates, help rural centers fill vacancies. The author states that long-term solutions for primary care physician staffing will involve a greater reliance on nurse practitioners.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIMARY care; MEDICAL personnel supply &; demand; REGIONAL disparities in the labor supply; PHYSICIAN supply &; demand; MEDICALLY underserved areas; NURSE practitioners; NATIONAL Health Service Corps (U.S.); RURAL health services; COMMUNITY health services
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006, Vol 295, Issue 9, p1062
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.295.9.1062