McGinnis SL, Moore J. An analysis of racial/ethnic pay disparities among hospital nurses in New York City. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2009;10(4):252-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154409358627
Despite growing concern over cultural competence and diversity in the registered nursing (RN) workforce, minority RNs working in hospitals in New York City who were surveyed in 2007 earned less on average than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Regression decomposition was applied to these data to investigate how much of the differential could be attributed to different characteristics of different racial/ethnic groups and how much could be attributed to differential valuation of characteristics between racial/ethnic groups.
Moore JM. Studying an ill-defined workforce: public health workforce research. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2009;15(6 Suppl):S54-5.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0b013e3181b23978
This article describes challenges, issues, and strategies associated with public health workforce research. The factors that contribute to workforce supply and demand imbalances are reviewed, and the unique difficulties encountered with studies of public health workers are identified. Two case studies of previous public health workforce research conducted by the New York Center for Health Workforce Studies are used to illustrate how different levels of analyses can be used to better understand recruitment and retention issues of public health workers and to inform programs and policies designed to ensure a well-sized and competent public health workforce.
Wing P, Langelier MH. Workforce shortages in breast imaging: impact on mammography utilization. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2009;192(2):370-378.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2214/AJR.08.1665
The objective of this study was to develop reliable forecasts of the future supply of radiologists and radiologic technologists practicing mammography under different assumptions about future introduction of new practitioners. In addition, this article includes basic mammography workforce statistics to provide a context for the forecasts.
Wing P, McGinnis SL, Moore JM. Toward a new method for identifying facilities and communities with critical shortages of nurses. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2009;10(1):28-39.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154408328660
This article summarizes the key findings of a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of different methods for assessing the severity of nursing shortages in four types of health care facilities in the United States (hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, and public health agencies). The results of a “preferred method” for rating the severity of nursing shortages in counties in the United States are presented, along with key findings based on a variety of other models and analyses.
McGinnis SL, Zoske FM. The emerging role of faith community nurses in prevention and management of chronic disease. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice. 2008;9(3):173-180.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154408322560
Faith community nursing, formerly known as parish nursing, is one model of care that relies heavily on older registered nurses (RNs) to provide population-based and other nonclinical services in community settings. Faith community nursing provides services not commonly available in the traditional health care system (e.g., community case management, community advocacy, community health education). With appropriate support, this model of nursing could be expanded into other settings within the community and has the potential to draw on the skills of experienced RNs to provide communities with services that address unmet health care needs.
Wing P, Forte GJ, Dionne MG, Christina JR. Projections of the supply of and demand for podiatric physicians in the United States, 2005 to 2030. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association. 2008;98(4):330-336.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18685057
An unanticipated decrease in applications to podiatric medical schools in the late 1990s has resulted in a decline in the number of podiatric physicians per capita in the United States. This study explores the implications of five possible scenarios for addressing this decline. The growing supply-demand gap revealed by this study will be an important challenge for the podiatric medical profession to overcome during the next couple of decades.
Wing P, Langelier MH, De AP. Nuclear medicine scientists: findings and recommendations based on a 2006 survey. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2007;48(4):11N-20N.
http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/48/4/11N.full.pdf
Nuclear medicine science is a critical foundation for the entire field of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice. Rapid evolution in the field makes the seminal contributions of nuclear medicine scientists even more important, because these individuals function as the key determinants of the direction and pace of future change. Despite the important contributions of nuclear medicine scientists, little reliable documentation is available describing who they are, what they do, their roles in employing organizations, what tasks they perform, and where they work. This survey was conducted in an effort to fill this data void and provide new information about the characteristics of nuclear medicine scientists and their contributions to the field of nuclear medicine, imaging, and medicine more generally.
Erikson C, Salsberg E, Forte G, Bruinooge S, Goldstein M. Future supply and demand for oncologists: challenges to assuring access to oncology services. Journal of Oncology Practice. 2007;3(2):79-86.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/JOP.0723601
An ASCO study of the oncologist workforce conducted in the mid-1990s found that supply and demand were in equilibrium. The current analysis shows a similar balance in 2005, but projects that this balance will not be sustained into the future. New data on physician supply gathered from surveys of practicing oncologists, oncology fellows, and fellowship program directors were analyzed, along with 2005 American Medical Association Masterfile data on practicing medical oncologists, hematologists/oncologists, and gynecologic oncologists, to determine the baseline capacity and to forecast visit capacity through 2020.
Kouznetsova M, Huang X, Ma J, Lessner L, Carpenter DO. Increased rate of hospitalization for diabetes and residential proximity of hazardous waste sites. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007;115(1):75-79.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9223
Recent epidemiologic evidence suggests associations between diabetes and several environmental exposures, specifically persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that residential proximity to POP-contaminated waste sites result in increased rates of hospitalization for diabetes.
Calman NS, Hauser D, Forte G, Continelli T. New York state physicians: characteristics and distribution in health professional shortage areas. Journal of Urban Health. December 2006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9129-3
Along with high numbers of physicians, New York State also has 2.7 million people living in poverty and 3 million without health insurance who are likely to live in areas with few physicians. Nearly 4 million New Yorkers live in communities that have been designated as health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). This study was conducted to examine the physician workforce in New York State and its HPSAs.
