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February 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
Health Careers Center, an affiliate of the Greater New York Hospital Association, developed a program to offset an anticipated shortage of health care workers in New York City in the early 1990s.
June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article seeks to expand what limited information we have on the composition and duties of local boards of health (LBOH) as an important foundational step in analyzing the role of LBOHs in leveraging improved public health outcomes. LBOH members ...
June 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article describes how measures of staff turnover among long-term care workers are calculated differently by different provider organizations, which makes evaluating interventions designed to reduce staff turnover difficult.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
The Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) initiative focused on the area of workforce improvement for direct care workers and was the result of collaboration between the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article examined In-Home Supportive Service workers across eight counties in California. Study participants were 2,260 workers who completed a survey focused on reasons workers took or stayed in jobs.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
A study of related caregivers explores characteristics of those that stay or leave the direct care workforce. Over 40 percent of Leavers would consider future direct care work with people to whom they were not related.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
An investigation of perceptions of older workers in the direct-care workforce found that low-income older workers were interested in jobs in long-term care.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Direct care workers were asked for recommendations on how to improve their jobs. Across work settings, workers specified better pay and improved working relationships as key recommendations.
March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The expansion of U.S. physician workforce training has been justified on the basis of population growth, technological innovation and economic expansion. Our analyses found threefold differences in physician full-time-equivalent (FTE) inputs for Med ...