Remove 2019 Remove DO Remove Primary Care Remove Primary Care Physician
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Neighborhood Determinants of Primary Care Access in Virginia [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of any health care system. Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. Finally, he observed that many of the things that frustrate family physicians about the current [U.S. He pointed out that 93% of U.S. trillion annually.

article thumbnail

Well-being at work among general practitioners working in multidisciplinary primary care teams [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

In many Western countries, transforming primary care (PC) systems involves changes in how work is organised, especially through the development of multidisciplinary teams. We conducted a secondary analysis of the data of the 2019 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians.

article thumbnail

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

BMJ

Hence, we conducted this study to determine the risk perceptions of primary care workers for COVID-19 vaccines and the predictive factors in their willingness to have the COVID-19 vaccine before vaccination, which started on January 14, 2021, in Turkey. Immunization, 2019. REFERENCES World Health Organization. BMC Fam Pract.