Developing Health Care Faculty to Address the Needs of North Carolina’s Diverse Populations

Abstract

Addressing community needs improves population health and the well-being of health care providers.

Building a Workforce for Health in North Carolina

“…Robin Cummings and coauthors from UNC-Pembroke reflect on the challenges North Carolina's rural and economically distressed communities face with health, health workforce, and training [9]. They assert that rural areasespecially those with large, underserved populations-continue to face critical shortages in primary and specialty care due to those communities' unique combinations of socioeconomic and cultural norms and lack of access to basic services.…”