Dr. Ed Baker is a professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Health and the director of the Center for Health Policy in the College of Health Sciences at Boise State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Temple University in 1994. He has over 20 years of experience in healthcare working with hospitals, physicians, integrated delivery systems, biotech pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions. Dr. Baker’s research interests include healthcare policy, rural workforce planning, healthcare financing, and health system performance improvement.
Articles
Assessing Community Health Center (CHC) Assets and Capabilities for Recruiting Physicians: The CHC Community Apgar Questionnaire (with D. F. Schmitz, S. A. Wasden, L. A. MacKenzie, and T. Epperly), Rural and Remote Health (2012)
Introduction: Recent trends suggest that community health centers (CHCs) may experience a shortage of qualified...
Association of "Grit" and Satisfaction in Rural and Nonrural Doctors (with Alex J. Reed, David Schmitz, Ayaka Nukui, and Ted Epperly), Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (2012)
Background: One potential psychological construct, grit, may help to explain the non-cognitive traits that...
Idaho Rural Family Physician Workforce Study: The Community Apgar Questionnaire (with David Schmitz and Ted Epperly), Rural and Remote Health (2011)
Context: Community factors of varied importance help determine the success of achieving and maintaining a...
The Cost of Substance Abuse: The Use of Administrative Data to Investigate Treatment Benefits in a Rural Mountain State (with Peter A. Collins, Jonathon A. Cooper, Brady Horn, Mary K. Stohr, Anthony Walsh, and Lisa Bostaph), Western Criminology Review (2010)
Findings from cost-benefit evaluations have suggested that the cost of substance abuse treatment is covered...
Assessing Community Health Center (CHC) Assets and Capabilities for Recruiting and Retaining Physicians: The CHC Community Apgar Questionnaire (with David Schmitz, Ayaka Nukui, and Benjamin Tverdy), Idaho Department of Health and Welfare - State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (2010)
Community factors play a key role in the recruitment and retention of physicians. While prior...
Presentations
Comparing Critical Access Hospital Physician Recruitment Factors Across Five States (with David Schmitz), 36th Annual Rural Health Conference, National Rural Health Association (2013)
The Critical Access Hospital Apgar Questionnaire has identified 50 factors important to recruitment of physicians...
Nursing Community Apgar Questionnaire: An Innovative Tool for Rural Nurse Recruitment and Retention (with Molly Prengaman and David Schmitz), The 26th Annual NW Regional Rural Health Conference (2013)
Following the introduction of the Community Apgar Questionnaire (CAQ) used by critical access hospitals (CAHs)...
Community Apgar Program: A Tool for Improving the Recruitment and Retention of Rural Communities - An Assets and Capabilities Assessment: Experiences from Maine and Review of National Data (with David Schmitz), Recruitment and Retention Forum, Arizona Department of Health Services and the Arizona Association of Community Health Centers (2013)
Assessing Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Assets & Capabilities for Recruiting and Retaining Physicians: The North Dakota CAH Community Apgar Program (with David Schmitz and Aaron Ortiz), Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health (2012)
The Critical Access Hospital Community Apgar Questionnaire (CAH CAQ) has identified 50 factors important to...