Oral

The quality of the primary care workforce directly affects the distribution of health outcomes across the nation. Disparities within the primary care workforce and the public health system should be recognized and addressed through evidence-based interventions that focus on the recruitment, retention and training of an adequate supply of health professional workers. Presenters in this session will provide strategic methods for understanding the relationship between the primary care workforce and health outcomes as well as how to address the needs of the public health workforce.

Session Objectives: 1) Understand the impact of primary care workforce distribution on health outcomes, and apply methods to examine this relationship. 2) Recognize disparities within the public health workforce. 3) Identify and define evidence based-strategies for recruiting and retaining an adequate supply of health professional workers. 4) List ways state level policy makers can increase, retain and strengthen their supply of nursing professionals in rural and medically underserved areas. 5) Distinguish research-tested from practice-based interventions and identify ways to disseminate evidence-formed interventions.

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing