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Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Trends in Physician Supply and ...

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Apr 1, 2013 - The physician workforce has steadily grown faster than the U.S. population over the past 30 years, context that is often absent in conversations anticipating physician scarcity. Policy makers addressing future ...

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Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Health Care Transition ...

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Dec 1, 2012 - Youth with special health care needs who receive care within a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) are significantly more likely to receive services for transitioning to adult care. Broader implementation of the PCMH...

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Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Comprehensive Medical School ...

Dec 15, 2011 - Health insurance expansion expected from the Affordable Care Act is likely to exacerbate the long-standing and critical shortage of rural and primary care physicians over the next decade. Comprehensive medical school ...

www.aafp.org/afp/2011/1215/p1350.html

Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Will Patients Find Diversity in ...

Jul 15, 2008 - Mexican Americans and blacks experience disparities in health outcomes relative to white populations. During the past five to 10 years, fewer blacks and Mexican Americans are going to medical school and entering ...

www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0715/p183.html

Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Greater Family Medicine Presence...

May 15, 2010 - Advisory committees perform pivotal tasks at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), informing funding decisions, helping establish research priorities, and contributing to the vision for the nation's biomedical ...

www.aafp.org/afp/2010/0515/p1213.html

Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Title VII Is Criticial to the ...

Jan 15, 2010 - Community health centers (CHCs) and the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) are essential to a functioning health care safety net, but they struggle to recruit physicians. Compared with physicians trained in ...

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Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Is NIH Research Funding to ...

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Feb 1, 2013 - National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to family medicine departments is very low and has an inverse association with the production of family physicians at these medical schools. Clinical and Translational ...

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Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Improving America's Health ...

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Aug 15, 2012 - Amidst sweeping changes to health care in the 1960s, the broadly influential Folsom Commission report, “Health is a Community Affair,” never fully achieved its vision of galvanizing the creation of Communities of ...

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Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Primary Care's Ecologic Impact ...

Mar 15, 2009 - With a costly obesity epidemic, policy makers must recognize factors that may influence obesity not only for each person, but also across communities. Increased primary care physician density on the county level is ...

www.aafp.org/afp/2009/0315/p446.html

Graham Center Policy One-Pagers: Refocusing Geriatricians' Role ...

Jan 1, 2012 - The current number of geriatricians cannot keep up with the health care needs of the growing number of older adults. To fill the gap, more geriatricians should focus on training primary care and other specialty ...

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