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Volume 4, Issue 3 (Suppl) Health Care: Current Reviews
ISSN: 2375-4273 HCCR, an open access journal
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Primary Care Congress 2016
September 19-20, 2016
conferenceseries.com
September 19-20, 2016 Phoenix, USA
2nd Annual Congress and Medicare Expo on
Primary Care & General Pediatrics
Who provides primary care inArizona?
Joe Tabor and Nick Jennings
University of Arizona College of Public Health, USA
Results froma community-level analysis of health providers show high spatial variability of the workforce data, greater susceptibility
to data errors and bias due to incorrect assumptions about the data. Arizona has growing needs for primary care providers but
information about the role and distribution is lacking. Primary care physicians, PAs, and NPs compared at zip code and county
levels showed geographical maldistribution of professions that could influence the selection of preceptorship and residency training
locations. County level comparisons between physician licensing board data and Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) data
show a differential bias in magnitude and direction. State level comparisons underscore how a state such as Alaska can improve
primary healthcare rankings by including physician assistants, nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives. Spatial analysis of
healthcare workforce and points of services will better inform policy development by federal and state governments, educational and
professional organizations, and the private sector.
Biography
Joe Tabor PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Rural Health and has appointments in Community, Environment and Policy Department at the
University of Arizona’s College of Public Health in Tucson. His current research is in health care workforce and the epidemiology of valley fever (coccidioimycosis).
He has 25 years of consulting experience in natural resource management, agriculture, and public health in North America, Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. This
includes the disciplines of epidemiology, agronomy, botany, ecology, forestry, and pedology. He teaches environmental health policy.
Joe Tabor et al., Health Care: Current Reviews 2016, 4:3(Suppl)