Health Care Workforce in Eight States: Education, Practice and Policy. Spring 2004. Arizona

摘要

Key decision-makers in workforce policy within states and the federal government are eager to learn from each other. This initiative to compile in-depth assessments of the health workforce in 8 states is an important means of insuring that states and the federal government are able to effectively share information on various state workforce data, issues, influences and policies. Products of this study include individual health workforce assessments for each of the eight states and a single assessment that compares various data and influences across the eight states. In general, each state assessment provides the following: (1) A summary of health workforce data, available resources and a description of the extent the state invests in collecting workforce data. (Part of this information has been provided by the Bureau of Health Professions); (2) A description of various issues and influences affecting the health workforce, including the states legislative and regulatory history and its current programs, financing and policies affecting health professions education, service placement and reimbursement, planning and monitoring, and licensure/regulation; (3) An assessment of the states internal capacity and existing strategies for addressing the above workforce issues and influences; and (4) An analysis of the policy implications of the states current workforce data, issues, capacity and strategies.