Primary Care Clinicians in Low-Access Counties

Adam J Zolotor; Evan Galloway; Margaret Beal; Erin P Fraher

doi:10.18043/ncm.83.3.163

Primary Care Clinicians in Low-Access Counties

N C Med J. 2022 May-Jun;83(3):163-168. doi: 10.18043/ncm.83.3.163.

Authors

Adam J Zolotor¹, Evan Galloway², Margaret Beal³, Erin P Fraher⁴

Affiliations

¹ Professor, UNC School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine; associate director for medical education, North Carolina AHEC; UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [email protected].
² Research associate, Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
³ Assistant professor, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Allied Health Sciences, Division of Physician Assistant Studies, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁴ Associate professor, Department of Family Medicine, UNC School of Medicine and deputy director, UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

PMID: 35504718
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.83.3.163

Abstract

Advanced practice providers comprise an increasing percentage of the health care and primary care workforce. This paper evaluates the weighted contribution of advanced practice providers to the primary care workforce in well-served and underserved counties across North Carolina using age- and sex-adjusted population measures of access.

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care*
Humans
North Carolina / epidemiology
Primary Health Care*
Workforce