Establishing a rural academic infrastructure for individual health professions

Establishing a rural academic infrastructure for individual health professions.

Rural Community as Context and Teacher for Health Professions Education

Nepal is a low-income, landlocked country located on the Indian subcontinent between China and India. The challenge of finding human resources for rural community health care settings is not unique to Nepal. In spite of the challenges, the health sector has made significant improvement in national health indices over the past half century. However, in terms of access to and quality of health se...

Health infrastructure & immunization coverage in rural India.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Immunization coverage in India is far from complete with a disproportionately large number of rural children not being immunized. We carried out this study to examine the role of health infrastructure and community health workers in expanding immunization coverage in rural India. METHODS The sample consisted of 43,416 children aged 2-35 months residing in rural India fr...

State Licensure Laws and the Mental Health Professions: Implications for the Rural Mental Health Workforce

Maine. The Center builds upon the Institute's strong record of research, policy analysis, and policy development that addresses critical problems in health care financing and delivery. The Maine Rural Health Research Center's mission is to inform health care policymaking and the delivery of rural health services through high quality, policy relevant research, policy analysis and technical assis...

Changing the future of health professions: embedding interprofessional education within an academic health center.

Institutions are increasingly considering interprofessional education (IPE) as a means to improve health care and reduce medical errors in the United States. Effective implementation of IPE within health professions education requires a strategic institutional approach to ensure longevity and sustainability. In 2007, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) established Creating Collabora...