Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model
- Michael Wright
Submitted on: January, 2025
The application of the Primary Care Spend model to Australian data provides a more nuanced analysis of expenditure for primary health care than routine health expenditure reports. Its output could be used to inform targets for spending on different tiers, types, and locations of primary care, especially comprehensive and other high value primary care services, and to monitor progress toward these targets.
Read More“I consider myself to be a leader”: a qualitative exploration of early career women family physicians’ intentions to assume a leadership role
- Annie Koempel
Submitted on: December, 2024
Despite the increasing presence of women in US medical schools over the past 25 years, gender equity in medical leadership remains elusive. This qualitative study delves deeper into definitions of institutional leadership roles, who they are designed for, and how women currently contribute in unrecognized and uncompensated leadership positions.
Read MoreUS Primary Care Workforce Growth: A Decade of Limited Progress, and Projected Needs Through 2040
- Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Submitted on: October, 2024
Despite efforts to mitigate a projected primary care physician (PCP) shortage required to meet an aging, growing, and increasingly insured population, shortages remain, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, growing inequity, and persistent underinvestment.
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 expanded health coverage to 31 million Americans, accelerating demand for primary care. This rising demand has consistently outpaced the supply of primary care physicians (PCPs), particularly impacting vulnerable and underserved populations, due to persistent maldistribution. The COVID-19 pandemic further compounded the problem, accelerating demand, widening disparities, and stressing an already underfunded and overworked primary care sector.
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