Download or read book Rural Health Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health care in rural America written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Health Care Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Health Care Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Reform Rural Small Businesses and the Rural Health Delivery System Development Act of 1994 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Development of Rural Enterprises, Exports, and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Health in the United States written by Thomas C. Ricketts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the 61 million people who live in rural America have limited access to health care. Almost a quarter of the nation's population lives in rural places yet only an eighth of our doctors work there. Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy, this unique book provides the facts about this imbalance and interprets them in the context of government programs that promote the placement of doctors and the operation of hospitals in rural places while paying them less to treat Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The authors' comprehensive analysis of rural health care delivery shows where there are differences in rates of death and disease between rural areas using maps, graphs, and plain-English descriptions. The book provides a thorough look at health care in rural America, giving a snapshot of how doctors, hospitals, and technology are unevenly distributed outside the nation's metropolitan areas.
Download or read book Quality Through Collaboration written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-04-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities. Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20% of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face. Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends: Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needs Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals Enhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health care Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure It is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.
Download or read book Access to Health Care in Rural and Inner City Communities Under Health Care Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Reform written by Carole L. Mintzer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Need for Better Focus in the Rural Health Care Clinic Program Part II written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-Rom has same title as book.
Download or read book Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well Being written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain less than 20 percent of the U.S. population. The relative sparseness of the population in rural areas is one of many factors that influence the health and well-being of rural Americans. Rural areas have histories, economies, and cultures that differ from those of cities and from one rural area to another. Understanding these differences is critical to taking steps to improve health and well-being in rural areas and to reduce health disparities among rural populations. To explore the impacts of economic, demographic, and social issues in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing the associated challenges, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on June 13, 2017. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Download or read book Health Care in Rural America written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health needs and health services in rural America are key issues directly related to education as well as community well-being. This report examines rural America's access to basic health care services and discusses options for congressional consideration. The focus is on trends in availability of primary and acute rural health care and on factors affecting those trends. The report describes the characteristics of rural populations and health programs, the availability of rural health services and personnel, and delivery of rural maternal and infant health and mental health care services. On each subject, options for congressional action are examined. The federal government currently finances several different types of rural health care programs, and has a strong interest in health care trends. Major declines in inpatient utilization, compounded by increasing amounts of uncompensated care, have undermined the financial health of many rural hospitals, which also are faced with the outmigration of rural residents to urban areas for care. Policy reform options are presented in regard to: (1) improvement of rural health facilities; (2) availability and training of health professionals in rural areas; and (3) enhancing maternal and infant care programs and mental health care programs in rural areas. This document contains numerous charts, graphics, data tables, and appendices that present background information about the study. It also includes a 745-item bibliography and a subject index.
Download or read book Rural Health and Health Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book China s Healthcare System and Reform written by Lawton Robert Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive review of China's healthcare system and policy reforms in the context of the global economy. Following a value-chain framework, the 16 chapters cover the payers, the providers, and the producers (manufacturers) in China's system. It also provides a detailed analysis of the historical development of China's healthcare system, the current state of its broad reforms, and the uneasy balance between China's market-driven approach and governmental regulation. Most importantly, it devotes considerable attention to the major problems confronting China, including chronic illness, public health, and long-term care and economic security for the elderly. Burns and Liu have assembled the latest research from leading health economists and political scientists, as well as senior public health officials and corporate executives, making this book an essential read for industry professionals, policymakers, researchers, and students studying comparative health systems across the world.
Download or read book Health Care Reform and Rural Hospitals written by Esther Elizabeth Parisian and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Rural hospitals have long faced a set of challenges, due to the unique demographic characteristics of the populations they serve, which sets them apart from their urban and suburban counterparts. On average, rural residents tend to be older, poorer and sicker than urban counterparts, require more care, and are more likely to be uninsured than non rural residents. This means that the higher cost of providing care to this population is more likely to go unpaid and, as a result, many rural hospitals struggle to remain viable financially; providing uncompensated care at such high levels makes it difficult to break even, let alone turn a profit. Because rural hospitals are central to rural communities, in terms of both the important health services they provide and their significant contribution to the local economy, their financial vulnerability is of particular concern to rural residents. Recently, the March 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health care reform law which increases access to and lowers the cost of health care for many Americans, has offered renewed hope to rural hospitals. Major rural health organizations have suggested that the ACA may relieve a significant portion of the financial burden faced by rural hospitals by providing a large percentage of the rural uninsured with free or affordable health insurance. However, a critical flaw in this thinking is the assumption of homogeneity among rural hospitals. The ACA, if implemented as planned, will in fact expand health insurance coverage to many previously uninsured Americans, a disproportionate number of whom reside in rural areas. Nonetheless, the potential benefits of the legislation will be felt differentially by rural hospitals depending upon their size, ownership type, and the demographics of patients served. It is possible that small or isolated rural hospitals and those that serve a disproportionate number of undocumented workers may fail to experience the kind of financial relief predicted for rural hospitals in general. The objectives of this analysis are to a) assess systematically and critically the expectations/predictions regarding the impact of the ACA; b) evaluate factors that apply specifically to rural hospitals given their current difficulties and the characteristics of the populations they serve; and c) identify factors not considered in the existing policy research that need to be addressed to more accurately predict and control the relative impact of the ACA on rural hospitals.
Download or read book Health Care Reform Legislation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Development of Rural Enterprises, Exports, and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
