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The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is an academic journal founded in 1990 by David Satcher, then President of Meharry Medical College who later became the 16th Surgeon General of the United States.
Journal of American College Health; Journal of Community Health; Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research; Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; Journal of Health and Social Behavior; Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; Journal of Health Economics; Journal of Health Management; Journal of Immigrant and ...
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the safety net in the country's health care system. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of ...
Cultural competence is a practice of values and attitudes that aims to optimize the healthcare experience of patients with cross cultural backgrounds. [7] Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include promoting diversity, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact, having institutionalized cultural knowledge, and having developed ...
The Journal of American College Health is a bimonthly peer-reviewed public health journal covering college health. It was established in 1952 as the Journal of the American College Health Association, and obtained its current name in 1982. [1] It is published by Routledge in cooperation with the American College Health Association. [2]
Pay for performance systems link compensation to measures of work quality or goals. Current methods of healthcare payment may actually reward less-safe care, since some insurance companies will not pay for new practices to reduce errors, while physicians and hospitals can bill for additional services that are needed when patients are injured by mistakes. [1]
Racial demographic disparities in healthcare access are also present in rural areas, particularly with Native Americans living in rural areas receiving inadequate medical care. [12] [13] Factors such physician shortages and transportational barriers exacerbate healthcare disparities for the native American population leading postponement of ...
Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1] Some of the many causes include income, inequality, [needs update] [2] inflation, unemployment, debt traps and poor ...