A Report to the President & Congress on the Status of Health Professions Personnel in the United States. [Advance Issue, August 1978].

Institution	Health Resources Administration (DHEW/PHS), Bethesda, MD. Bureau of Health Manpower.
Titel	A Report to the President & Congress on the Status of Health Professions Personnel in the United States. [Advance Issue, August 1978].
Quelle	(1978), (386 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Data Collection; Dentists; Employment Opportunities; Employment Patterns; Enrollment; Federal Legislation; Geographic Distribution; Health Personnel; Information Needs; Information Systems; Labor Market; Labor Needs; Labor Supply; Optometrists; Pharmacists; Physicians; Prediction; Professional Education; Statistical Data; Tables (Data); Veterinary Medicine; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Data capture; Datensammlung; Zahnarzt; Zahnärztin; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Einschulung; Bundesrecht; Medizinisches Personal; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Labour Supply; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Physician; Doctor; Arzt; Vorhersage; Berufsausbildung; Tabelle; Tiermedizin; USA
Abstract	This report, the first of a series of annual reports mandated by the Public Health Service Act as amended by the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-484), describes and analyzes the status of health professions personnel in the United States. The professions covered are medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, and veterinary medicine. The content is presented in ten chapters. The first overviews the trends in health manpower supply and major health manpower concerns. The next chapter describes the dynamics of health manpower supply, including geographic distribution, licensure, and education. Chapter 3 discusses major considerations in determining health manpower requirements. In separate, succeeding chapters, information is presented on the status of physicians, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, podiatrists, and veterinarians. The information for each profession covers general and specific issues pertinent to the supply of and requirements for personnel. Focus is on professional and graduate education, student and practitioner trends and characteristics, current manpower supply, and projected manpower requirements. The last chapter briefly describes plans to develop a health professions data reporting system to meet the requirements of PL 94-484. The appendix contains detailed tables on each of the health professions covered and technical information on the sources and methodologies underlying the material presented. (EM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC