Integrating Social and Medical Care: Could it Worsen Health and Increase Inequity?

Community health centers: health care as it could be.

INTRODUCTION This Article explores the potential of community health centers (CHCs) to become a central component providing health care in America. It focuses on health centers as a proposed solution to the dual national problems of access to care and the shortage of primary care doctoring. It argues that CHCs have the capacity to address the problem of access to health services and to provide ...

Social inequalities and health inequity in Morocco

BACKGROUND According to the last census, Morocco has a population approaching 30 million people. The country has made good progress in the control of preventable childhood diseases but social inequalities and health inequities remain major problems for the third millennium. Despite the progress achieved during the last decade, the country still ranks at the 125th place according to the Human De...

Functional status measures for integrating medical and social care

PURPOSE Identify standard self-report questions about functioning suitable for measuring disability across integrated health and social services. THEORY Functional activities can be validly grouped according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) chapters of mobility, self-care, and domestic life. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis using information on...

Integrating Group Health and Workers’ Compensation Medical Care

This factsheet describes findings from a pilot project conducted in 2006-08 to integrate medical care for unionized janitorial workers in California. The principal participants were the workers’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, and a major janitorial employer, DMS Facility Services. Collaborating organizations included Kaiser Permanente, workers’ compensation insu...

Integrating health and social care from an international perspective