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Therese Zink is an American family physician, academic and author.She is a clinical professor in the Alpert Medical School at Brown University. [1]Zink is most known for employing qualitative and mixed methods in the research areas such as intimate partner violence, rural medical education, primary care guideline implementation, and medical professionalism.
The initiatives for youth, as well as the automatic enrollment at birth, together represent a significant step towards enhancing effective health care access for families in this population. [13] [14] [15] To elaborate more, children in poverty have worse health outcomes during adulthood.
The Andersen healthcare utilization model is a conceptual model aimed at demonstrating the factors that lead to the use of health services. According to the model, the usage of health services (including inpatient care, physician visits, dental care etc.) is determined by three dynamics: predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need.
Homeless patients are one of the groups who are especially vulnerable to patient dumping. [1] Patient dumping or homeless dumping is the practice of hospitals and emergency services inappropriately releasing homeless or indigent patients to public hospitals or onto the streets instead of transferring them to a homeless shelter or retaining
FQHCs, often the sole providers of primary care in the most vulnerable communities, consistently deliver high-quality care that leads to better disease outcomes. [5] They have been instrumental in expanding access to health care for medically underserved and rural areas, low-income groups, and racial and ethnic minorities. [14]
Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.
A mere 2.5 percent of all primary care doctors have gone through the certification process. “I cannot say it enough,” said then-Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) at the meeting. “Unless primary care physicians can identify the disease of addiction and know how to intervene, we will make slower progress than we should,” Levin said.
Hospitals are finding it financially advantageous to focus on population health management and keeping people in the community well. [28] The goal of population health management is to improve patient outcomes and increase health capital. Other goals include preventing disease, closing care gaps, and cost savings for providers. [29]