Access to health services and the quality of those services are closely linked to supply of trained health care providers. Training and retaining primary care providers is particularly important. This dashboard tracks key workforce measures including access to health care providers and the number of primary care providers. The national summary data for the measures that comprise this dashboard are presented below.
Having a usual source for medical care is a summary measure of adequate access to primary care.
This measure provides a count of the number of U.S. primary care physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Increasing access to primary care physicians and nurses can help prevent disease and serious illness.