Health services professionals are confronting the challenge of maintaining and improving competence over the course of lengthy careers in diverse practice specialties. This article reviews the efforts of a selection [...]
There are also considerations that relate to how the concept of a job analysis will be received by board members and licensees or certificants. First, it is important to determine [...]
This book provides a detailed, nontechnical overview of occupational licensing in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and the European Union for students of the labor market, consumers, the [...]
Empowered by the state legislatures and aligned with the profession they oversee, dental licensing boards inhibit competition through restrictive licensing practices. In the manner of a cartel, most boards have [...]
This study provides an empirical analysis of the effects of advertising and commercial practice on the price and quality of optometrists' services. Data were collected by actually purchasing eye examinations [...]
To summarize, the empirical tests used in this study have found no support for the contention that physicians were initially regulated at the behest of the general population. Rather, empirical [...]
To summarize, the empirical tests used in this study have found no support for the contention that physicians were initially regulated at the behest of the general population. Rather, empirical [...]
The generally stated purpose for licensing and the primary justification for this use of the police power of the state is to ensure quality in services offered to the public. [...]
The effect of licensing as a mechanism to control entry into occupations has been a neglected area of both regulation and labor market research. This study examines the role of [...]
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are capable of analyzing the regulation of their practice by state authorities. The annotated nursing statute, the medicine and pharmacy statutes, regulations from those three boards and [...]