Health care on the front line

ET nurses: on the front line of health care reform.

The most important challenge at the forefront of the national agenda is the need for health care reform. Major concerns of the current system are cost and access to care. This article discusses numerous congressional proposals and strategies for addressing these concerns. ET nurses are in a unique position to influence health care delivery. The Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society has imp...

Transformation of health care at the front line.

CONCERN ABOUT ESCALATING COSTS AND THE quality of health care delivered in the United States continues to mount. This has led to an increasing focus on pay-for-performance, valuedriven health care and public reporting of quality and cost information. However, several authors have questioned the effectiveness of pay for performance and public reporting to improve patients’ outcomes and have high...

On the front lines of health care.

Community health workers: a front line for primary care?

Among the potential changes invoked in discussions on health system transformation, a need to revitalize primary care remains paramount. One way of doing this, most agree, is to move more in the direction of team-based care. Professionals such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners may be able to ease some of the physician's clinical care load, but some populations also need help acces...

On the front line.

14 The drylands are on the front line of climate change, and they include the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We are already seeing in them the harrowing effects of climate change on poverty, survival, health, hunger, human well-being — and on peace itself, because the heavily impacted drylands are among the most unstable parts of the world. The stretch from Senegal through to Afgha...