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Using HRSA's Health Workforce Simulation Model to Estimate the Rural and Non-Rural Health Workforce

Description
Describes the status of the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)'s ongoing projection improvements in deriving estimates of workforce supply and demand by rural, suburban, and urban areas. Features an overview of HRSA's Health Workforce Simulation Model and discusses approaches to incorporating rurality into HRSA's health workforce projections. Presents statistics on projections for supply and demand of general surgeons and psychiatrists, and offers a review of key assumptions, current modeling limitations, and future directions.
Date
09/2020
Type
Document
Organizations
Bureau of Health Workforce, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
Tagged as
Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data

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