All Articles tagged Data &amp

• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  November 01, 2022 EDT
  What North Carolina’s Health Workforce Data Can—and Can’t—Tell Us
  Hilary A. Campbell

  North Carolina has some of the country’s best health workforce supply data through cooperation with licensing boards, but the data don’t encompass all health care workers. Workforce demand data are...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  November 01, 2022 EDT
  Sidebar: Creating a Workforce for Health: Next Steps for North Carolina
  Brianna LombardiErin Fraher

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  November 01, 2022 EDT
  Developing Health Care Faculty to Address the Needs of North Carolina’s Diverse Populations
  Robin G. CummingsCherry M. BeasleyEva Skuka

  Addressing community needs improves population health and the well-being of health care providers. The development of the health care workforce requires faculty to address the needs of North Carolina’s diverse...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  November 01, 2022 EDT
  Sidebar: The North Carolina Nursing Pipeline—A Lack of Nursing Educators is at the Heart of the Shortage
  Lori Byrd

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  November 01, 2022 EDT
  Challenges and Opportunities for Graduate Medical Education: Steps to Keep Physician Training in North Carolina Exceptional
  Herbert G. Garrison

  Changes in health care present many challenges and opportunities to North Carolina’s exceptional graduate medical education programs. Steps to keep these programs exceptional include boosting leadership training, championing well-being, expanding...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2022 EDT
  Examining the Intersection of Life Expectancy and Social Vulnerability by Locality
  Willysha JenkinsCourtney JacksKatherine Tyrlik

  Social vulnerabilities affect life expectancy across North Carolina. From 2018 to 2020, we observed that counties with low life expectancy had higher Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) scores. Counties with low...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2022 EDT
  Sidebar: Place-based Differences in Life Expectancy
  Margaret M. SuggLauren M. AndersenJennifer D. Runkle

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  September 01, 2022 EDT
  Back to the Future: Reflecting on Three Decades of Healthy North Carolina Infant Mortality Goals
  Kathleen Jones-VesseySarah McCracken Cobb

  Decreasing infant mortality has been a key objective of Healthy North Carolina task forces since the inaugural 1990 objectives, but the state has frequently failed to reach its infant mortality...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2022 EDT
  Evidence-Based Point-of-Sale Policies to Reduce Youth Tobacco Use in North Carolina
  Sarah M. Halvorson-FriedAlexandria E. ReimoldSarah D. MillsKurt M. Ribisl

  With the passage of new point-of-sale tobacco control policies, North Carolina could reduce youth tobacco use rates.

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  July 01, 2022 EDT
  Swimming Upstream: Addressing Racial Disparities in Teen Births in North Carolina
  Kia ThackerAshley S. JacksonBianka M. Reese

  Despite the stark decline i...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 01, 2022 EDT
  Primary Care Clinicians in Low-Access Counties
  Adam J. ZolotorEvan GallowayMargaret BealErin P. Fraher

  Advanced practice providers...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 01, 2022 EDT
  SIDEBAR: NC Nursecast: Understanding the Nursing Workforce in North Carolina
  Emily B. McCartha

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  May 01, 2022 EDT
  Uninsurance in North Carolina: Progress and Opportunities
  Erica Palmer SmithKathryn HornefferPeg O’Connell

  Virtually all of the Healthy North Carolina 2030 goals rely on access to affordable health care. This commentary provides an overview of how North Carolina’s coverage gap impacts the state’s...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  March 01, 2022 EDT
  Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Toxic Chemicals of Concern in North Carolina
  Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi

  Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), a family of human-made chemicals often described as “forever chemicals,” are observed in a wide range of products utilized by North Carolinians and can cause...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  March 01, 2022 EDT
  The Status and Impact of Severe Housing Problems and Evictions in North Carolina
  Stephen J. Sills

  Housing costs, eviction rat...

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  March 01, 2022 EDT
  SIDEBAR: Community Housing and Environmental Justice
  Patricia Richmond MacfoySel Bundron Mpang

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• Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
  January 01, 2022 EDT
  Wealth and Health: Exploring Asset Poverty as a Key Measure of Financial Security
  Carl Rist

  A number of social and econ...

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  January 01, 2022 EDT
  Urgently Needed: Equity Tools to Navigate Demographic Gale-Force Wind Gusts
  James H. JohnsonJeanne Milliken BondsAllan M. Parnell

  Gale-force demographic disruptors such as unequal population growth can potentially prevent our state from achieving the exemplary goals and targeted outcomes set forth in Healthy North Carolina 2030. These forces...

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