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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

primary care physicians accept Medicare, and Medicare enrollment has been associated with improvements in age-specific mortality relative to peer nations. In " No: Medicare for All Would Cause Chaos and Fail to Control Health Care Costs ," Dr. Richard Young countered that "expansion of Medicare. health care bill.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

In Turkey, the COVID-19 vaccination program is performed both in primary care family medicine units and in hospitals. Immunization, 2019. Primary care visits increase utilization of evidence-based preventative health measures. REFERENCES World Health Organization. BMC Fam Pract. 2020;21(1):151.