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Oct. 5—Identifying healthcare needs and gaps and how various organizations can come together to solve those issues was the focus of Building the Basin, a Permian Basin Healthcare Workforce ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." [1] Identified by the 2012 World Development Report as one of two key human capital endowments, health can influence an individual's ability to reach his or her full potential in society. [2]
The U.S. has the widest health span-lifespan gap. ... and more effective health care practices will be crucial to closing the health span-lifespan gap. ... allowing doctors to identify people at ...
Despite the growing diagnosis of autism, which has been estimated to affect more than 2 million children and teens across the country, experts and advocates have bemoaned glaring gaps in services ...
By integrating into communities and working alongside hospitals and public health departments, CHCs play a key role in bridge the gaps in care by embedding themselves within communities to coordinate efforts with hospitals and public health departments to provide comprehensive, culturally responsive care that addresses the complex needs of ...
A needs assessment is a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps", between current conditions, and desired conditions, or "wants". [1]Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products.
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) established by the Obama administration in the United States, embodied the ideas put in place by the WHO by bridging the gap between community-based health and healthcare as a medical treatment, meaning that a larger consideration of social determinants of health was emerging in the policy. [132]
As Eugene faces health care shortages following a major hospital closure, new clinics and services promise relief — but is it enough? New clinics, rehab facility among proposals to address ...