The dormant national health care workforce commission needs congressional funding to fulfill its promise

Health Affairs

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2021-2024

  Buerhaus, Peter I ^a,b   Retchin, Sheldon M ^b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Health Care Workforce Commission   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING; FUNDING; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION; HEALTH REFORM; WORKFORCE ISSUES;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888111864     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0385     Document Type: Article

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