scholarly journals Differential patterns in comprehensive health care delivery for children and youth: health department, medical school, teaching hospital.

1970 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 1402-1420 ◽  
Author(s):  
W De Geyndt ◽  
L M Sprague
PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-293
Author(s):  
Kathleen J. Motil ◽  
W. John Siar

With the emphasis being placed on comprehensive health care, outpatient clinics in major city hospitals have found it necessary to reevaluate their methods of health care delivery. An increasing number of patients who fail to schedule or keep medical appointments appear for crisis care, resulting in a higher cost of hospital operation due to unnecessary utilization of emergency rooms and the wasting of time of clerical and professional personnel, as well as poor quality of health care due to See the Table in PDF File sporadic clinic attendance. When comparing behavior patterns and attitudes of clinic patients under different methods of health care delivery, patient preferences become apparent.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
William B. Bean ◽  
R. J. H.

If only some wise person or group had established land grant medical schools as well as technical colleges, the gravitational tug of medical science into laboratories would have been balanced by the daily correctives which the practical art of caring for the ill and ailing brings. This might have avoided the dissociation and fragmentation which seem to follow so regularly when a medical school-hospital collaboration is transmogrified into a teeming unzoned megalopolis-the modern health-care-delivery-center-jungle.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
Robert D. Burnett ◽  
Mary Kaye Willian ◽  
Richard W. Olmsted

In the 1960s, predictions were made that the United States faced a "physician shortage."1,2 On the basis of these predictions, federal legislation subsidized the establishment of new medical schools and the expansion of those in existence. From 1968 to 1974, the number of medical school graduates rose from 7,973 to 11,613.3 Nevertheless, problems of availability of, and access to, health services remain. Mere increase in number of physicians is not the solution to the problem of health care delivery in the United States; in fact, there is concern that we now face an oversupply of physicians.4 The recently published Carnegie report recommends that only "one" new medical school be established.5


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Richard Don Blim

In what is considered one of the most important books of the past decade—Future Shock—Alvin Toffler1 describes the sickness that befalls an individual, an organization, or a nation when it is overwhelmed by rapid changes. He asserts that two actions must be initiated if "future shock" is to be minimized. They are (1) make the best assumptions possible about the future, and (2) undertake to control change. The health care field in the '70s faces many complex and difficult problems. Removing the financial barriers to comprehensive health care for all is but one of these formidable problems. Unquestionably, other problems involving the quality, quantity, efficiency and distribution of health care delivery require continued attention and should be resolved concurrently with the development of methods to finance comprehensive health care for all. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS (AAP) COMMITTEE ON THIRD PARTY PAYMENT PLANS In October 1956 the AAP appointed a Committee on Medical Care Plans. This committee was active until 1962 and was then dormant until 1964. At that time, the Council on Pediatric Practice was established in response to urgings of a number of Fellows that more consideration be given to the problems of the practice of pediatrics and its socioeconomic aspects. The Executive Board charged the council to concern itself with the delivery by pediatricians of the best possible care for the greatest number of children. At its first meeting in 1964, the council determined that the two items needing most urgent attention were the development of standards for child health care and the problems relating to various third party payment health plans, both private and governmental.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
S. Zuraida Zulkarnain

The practice of community medicine is the delivery of comprehensive health care by a health team trained in curative and preventive medicine to a defined population based on their needs and economy. For some time it has been realized that the integration of curative and preventive services is a well recognized national need. Only such a unification could effectively deliver comprehensive health care to the family which is the ultimate recipient of community care. The success in the application of the health care depends mainly on the training and attitude of the future doctors who are willing to work in the rural areas. It is therefore the responsibility of the medical school to train community oriented doctors, and such a training requires the provision of community projects in which students of the Medical School can participate.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-691
Author(s):  
Syra Madad ◽  
Anna Tate ◽  
Maytal Rand ◽  
Celia Quinn ◽  
Neil M. Vora ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe Zika virus was largely unknown to many health care systems before the outbreak of 2015. The unique public health threat posed by the Zika virus and the evolving understanding of its pathology required continuous communication between a health care delivery system and a local public health department. By leveraging an existing relationship, NYC Health+Hospitals worked closely with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ensure that Zika-related processes and procedures within NYC Health+Hospitals facilities aligned with the most current Zika virus guidance. Support given by the public health department included prenatal clinical and laboratory support and the sharing of data on NYC Health+Hospitals Zika virus screening and testing rates, thus enabling this health care delivery system to make informed decisions and practices. The close coordination, collaboration, and communication between the health care delivery system and the local public health department examined in this article demonstrate the importance of working together to combat a complex public health emergency and how this relationship can serve as a guide for other jurisdictions to optimize collaboration between external partners during major outbreaks, emerging threats, and disasters that affect public health. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:689-691)


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