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About the Center
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The Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) is a not-for-profit research organization dedicated to the collection, analysis, and distribution of health workforce data. The Center's work assists health, professional, and education organizations; policy makers; and the public understand issues related to the supply, demand, distribution, and use of health workers. |
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Areas of Activity
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Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Health Workforce Data: Using a variety of existing and new databases, the Center prepares reports on the supply and distribution of practicing physicians, physician assistants, and other health professionals. This data is analyzed and presented in a policy relevant format, such as by specialty, type of practice, community characteristics, or practitioner characteristics.
Assessing the Impact of Changes in Health Care on the Demand for and Use of Health Workers: The Center conducts studies, surveys, and qualitative research to better understand and quantify the impact of current and anticipated changes in the health sector on the demand and use of health workers. This includes the expansion of managed care and competition, hospital downsizing, increases in ambulatory care, the development of networks, the increased supply of physicians, and changes in reimbursement policies. Physician Workforce Planning and Graduate Medical Education: The Center assists teaching hospitals, physician organizations, and public agencies assess current and projected supply and demand by specialty. Providing Technical Assistance: The Center advises health and education organizations on issues related to current and projected health workforce issues. Assessing the Relationship between the Health Workforce and Access, Quality, and Costs: The Center undertakes studies to better understand and measure the impact of the health workforce on health care access, quality, and costs. |
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Users of Center Reports and Studies
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Academic health centers, graduate medical education consortia, medical schools, residency programs, and other health educators: Better data and forecasts on the supply, demand, and use of health personnel to assist education and training institutions decide how many of what type of practitioners to educate and train.
Health facilities, managed care organizations, health worker unions, and health provider organizations: These organizations require extensive information on the health workforce to design and implement effective programs and policies. Health professionals and their associations: Individual practitioners, professional associations, and local medical and specialty societies have a great interest in information related to the health workforce and marketplace. Government and philanthropy: The public and private sectors invest enormous sums of money in health professional education and training. With better information on supply and demand and how the market works, resources can be invested more productively and effectively. Students and others considering a health career: Better information on future job opportunities is needed by students, prospective students, and their families to make sound career decisions. |
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Organizational Setting and Affiliations
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The School of Public Health: The Center is housed within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany, State University of New York. The School, which is fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, offers graduate and professional training programs in public health. The school is a joint venture of the University at Albany, and the New York State Department of Health, and is affiliated with Albany Medical College. Faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and Health Policy, Management and Behavior to work with the Center to assure high quality data collection and analysis.
University at Albany's Department of Sociology: As a research center at the University at Albany, the Center has developed close ties with Albany's Department of Sociology. The Center provides access to unique research experiences and data analysis opportunities for Sociology graduate and post-graduate students. Working together with faculty, post-graduates, and graduate students of the nationally renowned Department of Sociology, the Center is able to draw upon a diversity of perspectives and research skills to enhance its work. Federal Cooperative Agreement: The Center is one of a handful of centers nationwide to be selected for a cooperative agreement for its health workforce analysis activities with the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Professions. The cooperative agreement supports a range of data analysis activities designed to assist state policy makers and to inform federal health workforce programs and policies. The six centers consult regularly to review current health workforce policy and data issues. The work of the centers is also intended to be a model for other state health workforce studies and planning efforts and several of the centers have provided technical assistance or undertaken joint projects with other states. The Center at the University at Albany is known for its original data collection activities and its studies related to the physician workforce and graduate medical education. The other centers are:
For more information on the federal cooperative agreement see the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis Web site. |
The Center for California Health Workforce Studies at the University of California at San Francisco
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