Audioconferences
Bridging the Health Care Workforce Gap: Combating Shortage and Diversity Challenges
GIH Disparities Audioconference Series
When:
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 1:00 p.m., Eastern Time
Who:
Ellen-Marie Whelan, Senior Health Policy Analyst and Associate Director of Health Policy, Center for American Progress
Saba Brelvi, Program Director, Diversity in Health Professions and Women's Health, The California Wellness Foundation
What:
Critical shortages in the health care workforce may jeopardize access to quality health care for an increasingly diverse and aging population in the United States. Overall shortages of health care workers are occurring in all fields, which are often exacerbated by geographic maldistribution of providers. Additionally, should health care reform pass, it is unclear how our already strapped health care system – including the workforce – will handle the increased demand for services.
The long lead-time required to reinforce the health care workforce increases the imperative for putting a wide range of strategies in place to address the issue as soon as possible. Failure to intervene may undermine future attempts to expand access to health care and further negatively affect the lives of all the citizens in this country.
Join us to learn about the extent of the health care workforce crisis in this country; short- and long-term recommendations for improving the pipeline, capacity, and diversity challenges being experienced by the workforce; and diverse strategies that health funders are employing to support these efforts.
Materials:
http://www.calhealthjobs.org/
Closing the Health Workforce Gap in California (Nov. 2007)
http://www.collegecampaign.org/assets/docs/hcwfs/071025-cco_edu_screen.pdf
Reports/polls on workforce diversity by TCWF grantee(s):
http://www.calhealthjobs.org/resources
Diversity in the Health Professions (TCWF Reflection Series,2005): http://www.calwellness.org/assets/docs/reflections/dec2005.pdf
Closing the Health Care Workforce Gap (January 15, 2010)
Reforming Federal Health Care Workforce Policies to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century by Daniel J. Derksen, Ellen-Marie Whelan
Expanding the Primary Care Workforce (November 3, 2009)
An Essential Element of Health Care Reform by Ellen-Marie Whelan
Equal Health Care for All: Opportunities to Address Health Care Disparities in Health Care Reform (December 17, 2009)
Opportunities to Address Health Care Disparities in Health Care Reform by Lesley Russell
A Move to Close the Health Care Disparities Gap (February 2, 2010)
The President's 2011 Budget Addresses Health Inequities by Lesley Russell
RSVP:
To register for this audioconference, send an e-mail to disparities@gih.org. You will receive the call-in number and link to related resource materials a few days before the call.
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