Shortage of Healthcare Professionals in California
“The health and well-being of Californians is compromised by both a significant health workforce shortage and a growing mismatch between population needs and available services.
Of particular concern:
- Insufficient supply of health professionals and frontline workers, especially in primary care, prevention, behavioral health, and aging-related services
- Imbalanced geographic distribution, with too few health workers in rural areas and inner-city urban areas, and an oversupply of some types of workers in urban areas
- Limited cultural and language match between providers and populations
- Barriers to fully utilizing health workers and technological innovations”
California Future Healthcare Workforce Commission, 2019
https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PDF-CaliforniaPhysiciansQRG2017.pdf