Adequate health care represents an issue that has always troubled rural America. From the earliest days of this country, affordable and quality health care has often been harder to find for those who those to live on the farm or in a small town or any place off the beaten path than it has for residents in urban areas. The State of Mississippi has undertaken an intensive program to widen access ...

Safety initiatives in hospitals should focus on common health care interventions that when used appropriately can improve important health outcomes, and when used inappropriately or not at all, result in substantial harm. We suggest that errors of omission should be a safety priority. We focus on preventive health care interventions, and describe five steps that can improve patients' safety by ...

Young women (aged 18-26 years) are a heterogeneous population transitioning from adolescence into adulthood who may present with unique issues and challenges, including a potential gap in health care after pediatric health care. Obstetrician-gynecologists should note that these patients may need assistance in transitioning from a pediatrician to a provider of adult health care (an internist, fa...

This paper lays out the advantages of using a model for developing research questions and methodologies aimed at evaluating how managed care arrangements for rural Medicaid moms and their children might affect their access to health care and their related health status. The PRECEDE (predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling causes in educational diagnosis and evaluation) health-education program ...

Community clinics are particularly prevention programme, as an integrated primary health care package. importanity clinics are particularlv | However, there is a continuing need, particularly in deprived inner city areas, for a core of consultant led child health doctors and nurses to provide * Vulnerable families this service in clinics, nurseries, and schools. Fewer general practitioners * Re...

The concepts of health and health care are moving towards the notion of personalized preventive health maintenance and away from an exclusive focus on the cure of disease. This is against the backdrop of contemporary public health challenges that include increasing costs, worsening outcomes, 'diabesity' epidemics, and anticipated physician shortages. Personalized preventive medicine could be cr...

this policy brief discusses preventive care benefits and cost-sharing included in health insurance provisions of the affordable care act (aca) legislation and highlights some consequences to americans and the country in terms of healthcare costs and value.

BACKGROUND The importance of the Out-of-Pocket payments (OOP) for health, as well as the share of the household's income devoted to this purpose provide relevant information for the characterization of the health system. Chile has two coexisting alternative insurance systems (a public system called FONASA and a private system generically called ISAPRE or preventive health institutions), becomin...

Research has shown that religion is associated with a wide range of health behaviors among adults of all ages. Although there is strong support for religion's influence on behaviors such as drinking and smoking, less is known about the possible relationship between religion and the use of preventive health services. This relationship may be particularly important in Mexico, a country with high ...

The current emphasis on preventive health care and wellness services suggests that measures of skills and competencies needed to effectively navigate the health care system need to be better defined. We take an expanded perspective of health literacy and define it as a set of skills used to organize and apply health knowledge, attitudes and practices relevant when managing one's health environm...