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August 1, 2001United States General Accounting Office Health Workforce - Ensuring Adequate Supply and Distribution Remains Challenging There is growing concern that many Americans will go without needed health care services because worker shortages or geographic misdistribution of certain types of health care professionals may develop. Changes in the U.S. health care system over the past two decades have affected the environment in which a variety of health professionals and paraprofessionals provide care. For example, while hospitals traditionally were the primary providers of acute care, advances in technology, along with cost controls, have shifted much care from traditional inpatient settings . . .
