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Global Health for All

WEBGlobal health is distinguished from the earlier international health in that the latter was characterized by national boundaries and bilateral aid while the former …

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Disparities and Inequities in US Health Care: Alive and Sick

WEBT he Commonwealth Fund’s periodic report of the performance of 11 high-income countries’ health care systems has recently been released for 2021. Once again, despite spending …

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The Vexing Problem of Access to Health Care in America: Is …

WEBFewer than half of private companies offer health insurance, only 54% of the population have employer-based health insurance, 52% of patients at charitable clinics are …

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Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Residency and

WEBPrimary care is the de facto behavioral health (BH) services and care system in the United States. 1 An estimated 30% to 80% of primary care visits are related at least in part to …

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Community: The Heart of Family Medicine

WEBThese principles focus on the definition of the community, methods of collaboration, engagement and education, use of relevance, use of iterative processes, dissemination …

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Family Medicine’s Task in Population Health: Defining It and

WEBFamily Medicine for America’s Health has helped reinvigorate this call to action and create a new vision for the role of primary care in redesigning health care and addressing the …

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Organizational Readiness to Change: Quality Improvement in …

WEBPrimary care is evolving to meet increasing demands for clinical practice transformation resources that sustain population health. 1-3 Today, new family physicians face distinct challenges as practice quality improvement (QI) leaders. Residency curricula now include team-based experiential learning to equip clinicians with the skills needed to …

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Promoting Motivational Interviewing in Primary Care: More Than

WEBIntroduction: Interacting with patients in a manner that furthers self-responsibility for health is an important skill for primary care clinicians. Motivational …

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The Shared Principles of Primary Care: A Multistakeholder

WEBAll who work in the US health care system struggle to design a more effective, efficient, accessible, high-quality, and high-value enterprise. 1,2 Primary care …

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Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Curricula in US Medical

WEBHealth disparities among African Americans are historic and pervasive. 1 Despite a narrowing of the gap for some conditions, African Americans continue to …

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Encouraging Mental Health Care in Family Medicine Residents

WEBWellness is a priority in graduate medical education since physician wellness is associated with improved outcomes for both patients and physicians. 2 A scoping review of the literature on mental health of physicians and residents notes poor mental health may result in increased medical errors and the provision of suboptimal care, and that burnout …

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Effect of a Medical Student-Led Curriculum on Teen Health

WEBAdolescents navigate myriad choices related to health behaviors that affect them into adulthood. The school plays a vital role in providing core curricula to promote …

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A Novel Curricular Approach to Teach Quality Improvement and …

WEBPreviously, students on the family medicine clerkship were introduced to a QI curriculum. 6 To assess students’ knowledge of community-based medicine, we …

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Family Physicians Delivering Babies

WEBFamily physicians’ maternity care skills are critical to the health of rural and underserved communities. 9-12 Family-centered maternity care is protective against burnout 13-15 …

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The Transformational Path Ahead: Competency-Based Medical …

WEBT he origins of competency-based medical education (CBME) began soon after family medicine became a recognized medical specialty. In 1978 the World Health Organization (WHO) published a white paper entitled Competency-based Curriculum Development in Medical Education. 1 This report was heavily influenced by the need for …

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The Political Determinants of Health

WEBBook Title: The Political Determinants of Health Author: Daniel E. Dawes Publication Information: Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, 216 pp., $29.95, …

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Integrated Behavioral Health Care in Family Medicine Residencies …

WEBP rimary care has been the principal mental health system for decades, delivering up to 80% of psychiatric care in the United States. 1 Family medicine has embraced this central role of providing quality behavioral health (BH) care. The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education requires significant behavioral training during family medicine …

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Students of Change: Health Policy in Action

WEBThe aim of this project is to describe a unique health policy and advocacy course within a family medicine clerkship. Methods: We analyzed policy briefs from 265 third-year medical students from April 2016 through April 2019. Each brief is categorized by the level of change targeted for policy reform: national, state, city, or university/school.

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Triple Aim Is Triply Tough: Can You Focus on Three Things at …

WEBA ccording to leading health care experts, the US health care system needs to address the triple aim of improving the patient experience of care, the health of populations, and …

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Integrating Quality Improvement and Community Engagement

WEBP opulation health management is an essential component of the triple aim, which seeks to improve US health care through improving patient care experience, health of …

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Examining Access to Psychiatric Care in Michigan’s Upper …

WEBIntroduction: There is a shortage of mental health services in rural America, and little research is focused on rural underserved communities.Our aim was to identify and map clinical mental health services located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (UP) and explore primary care physician (PCP) mental health service provision and barriers to …

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