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Health care navigation and access among Latino farmworkers: A qualitative study assessing individual perspectives [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Using a community-based research approach, our study aims to understand healthcare navigation, in addition to facilitators and barriers to health services among Latino Farmworkers. Setting: Our focus group sessions were conducted at various community sites in El Centro, Brawley, and Calexico, California.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

A 2024 analysis projected that by 2040 a shortage of 58,000 primary care clinicians (including nurse practitioners and physician assistants) will occur. There may not be enough time for prevention in primary care, but family physicians need to keep providing it the best we can. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? He died in 2024. What do I do?

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next? Annals of Int Med.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

including in most states that backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again,” Hilliard said. 28, are in states Trump won in November. “As health care system and academia.