This article proposes a new model, Public-Primary ACP, that leverages coordination between primary care and public health workforces to improve delivery of advance care planning. The COVID-19 pandemic ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced many of us to a new vocabulary: coronavirus, herd immunity, surge capacity, contact tracing, and personal protective equipment (PPE), to name a few. PPE includes ...
This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...
Why should these three fields in health care have anything in common? They seem so disparate, and if they do have some things in common, why and how should that make a difference? This paper explores ...
Patients trust their “personal physician” to provide the vaccine. Ann C. Greiner, Dr. Darilyn V. Moyer and Dr. Anand Parekh discuss the need for state public health departments to work more closely ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of resilient health systems, rooted in the delivery of primary care at the community level, to outbreak detection and response. Some countries that ...
In addition to the physician practice-oriented changes suggested by Dr. Hugh Taylor, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in his June 15 op-ed (“Primary care is in crisis. Here’s how to fix ...
As part of Rural Health Awareness Month, MUSC is emphasizing the critical role virtual primary care plays in improving access ...
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