Rural Health Research in Progress in the Rural Health Research Centers Program
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2003
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : United States. Office of Rural Health Policy
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Rural health services
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Rural health
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2012
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2005-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309094399
Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities. Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20% of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face. Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends: Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needs Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals Enhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health care Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure It is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309133475
Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities. Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20% of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face. Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends: Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needs Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals Enhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health care Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure It is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.
Author : United States. Health Services Administration. Bureau of Community Health Services
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Community health services
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Rural health services
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Author : Thomas C. Ricketts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199759723
Many of the 61 million people who live in rural America have limited access to health care. Almost a quarter of the nation's population lives in rural places yet only an eighth of our doctors work there. Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy, this unique book provides the facts about this imbalance and interprets them in the context of government programs that promote the placement of doctors and the operation of hospitals in rural places while paying them less to treat Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The authors' comprehensive analysis of rural health care delivery shows where there are differences in rates of death and disease between rural areas using maps, graphs, and plain-English descriptions. The book provides a thorough look at health care in rural America, giving a snapshot of how doctors, hospitals, and technology are unevenly distributed outside the nation's metropolitan areas.