Here at Occupy Healthcare we spend a great deal of time talking about primary care. There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is that primary care is the largest platform of healthcare delivery in the country. When…
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The primary care love affair
The primary care cooperative extension service and beyond
Discussions around healthcare usually come back to the importance of primary care. We have written about primary care extensively on this site, and one cannot look through the news of late and not see primary care somewhere in the conversation.…
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Tagged with: collaboration, healthcare, learning communities, primary care
Posted in Community, Contagion, healthcare, Innovation
Posted in Community, Contagion, healthcare, Innovation
The cost depends on the value
Today, Medscape released the results of their 2011 survey of physician compensation: I share this post here to point out the discrepancy in physicians’ average salaries based on their specialties. In particular, I would like to highlight that the three…
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Rural health, primary care and the importance of workforce
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; 2011), in 2010, there were approximately 209,000 practicing primary care physicians in the United States. AHRQ reported that of the 624,434 physicians delivering direct patient care only less than one-third…
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National Public Health Week April 2-8, 2012: A Healthier America Begins TODAY. Join the Movement!
National Public Health Week kicks off today! Let’s start with the basics: what is public health? Ultimately, public health is about prevention at the population level. As the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s motto so fittingly states, public…
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Tagged with: community health centers, national public health week, prevention, primary care, public health
Posted in Community, Health behavior, public health, Social Determinents of Health
Posted in Community, Health behavior, public health, Social Determinents of Health
Reforming Our Healthcare System *MUST* Include Expanding Access to Care
Without significant changes, healthcare spending in the United States (already one of the highest rates in the world per capita) will continue to increase at an unsustainable rate (PDF). Whatever one’s opinion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act…
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The primary care challenge (and solution?)
There is no doubt of the importance of primary care in healthcare. As the graph above shows, primary care is the largest platform of healthcare delivery in the country. This fact was not lost on those who were instrumental in…
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Rise up
Who controls the American healthcare system? “we do” You might ask, who is the “we”? In a recently released report, it was found that 1 out of every 2 jobs for physicians is in a hospital. “The era of the…
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Your role in healthcare
What role should the individual have in their own health and healthcare? If we operate under the assumption that healthcare is not meeting our needs, then who is really to blame? It seems that there is often a balance between…
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Tagged with: health, health behavior, healthcare system, primary care
Posted in Health behavior, healthcare
Posted in Health behavior, healthcare
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