The Role of Nurse Practitioners in Meeting Increasing Demand for Primary Care
One way states could increase access to primary care for their residents is to consider easing their scope of practice restrictions and modifying their reimbursement policies to increase the role of nurse practitioners in providing primary care, according to a new paper released by the National Governors Association (NGA).
Regional Medical Programs
This chapter (from E. Ginzburg (Ed.), Regionalization and Health Policy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) focuses on the Regional Medical Program experience relative to the limits of regionalization in a pluralistic system, the conditions for success, and the response of voluntarism to government regulation in health.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally
The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report - Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States - the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S.
Grounding Interprofessional Education in Scholarship
The following is a digital version of Hugh Barr's Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by published work, awarded by the University of Greenwich.
The author writes: "The 18 papers submitted are a cross-section of my publications in interprofessional education (IPE) since becoming actively engaged in that field in 1989. They comprise four themes. Each is updated and complemented by additional conceptualizations. Together, they point to the need to:
The Education of the Health Care Team- What's It All About?
This document is the text of a speech delivered by Richard Beckhard at the Congress on Medical Education held in Chicago on February 1, 1974.
As Beckhard explains: "The issue is not whether team delivery of health care is good or bad, needed or not needed. Team delivery of care exists today, in a wide variety of delivery settings from the private physician-nurse team, to the multi-member interdisciplinary teams in community health centers, out-patient clinics and the like.
An Academic-Practice Model to Improve the Health of Underserved Neighborhoods
The Interprofessional Care Access Network is an innovative model for academic-practice partnership providing care coordination for vulnerable and underserved clients and populations in identified neighborhoods. Interprofessional student teams, including health professions students from nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, collaborate with community service organizations and primary care clinics to address social determinants of health identified as barriers to achieving health care outcomes and Triple Aim goals.
Organizational Issues in the Team Delivery of Comprehensive Health Care
This paper examines the kinds of organization problems existing in community based delivery settings and then identifies several ways of looking at organizational functioning. These methods are applied to the identified organizational problems. Finally, the author discusses some implications for the curricula of medical and professional schools concerned with the education and training of health workers for the practice of social medicine.
Using population segmentation to provide better health care for all: The "Bridges to Health" model
The model discussed in this article divides the population into eight groups: people in good health, in maternal/infant situations, with an acute illness, with stable chronic conditions, with a serious but stable disability, with failing health near death, with advanced organ system failure, and with long-term frailty. Each group has its own definitions of optimal health and its own priorities among services.