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Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

However, facing the challenges brought by China's national health strategy, aging population, and high incidence of chronic diseases, there is an urgent need to improve the service capacity of China's primary medical institutions.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Who should get it if anyone? What should we use to screen individuals? Is that right, Soo? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway

FDA Law

Whether a surrogate or intermediate clinical endpoint (ICE), the endpoint to support accelerated approval is one that can be assessed more rapidly than the ultimate clinical benefit; this is what enables earlier patient access than would be possible while generating the evidence to support a traditional approval, which is typically infeasible.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training. I would hope a referral would go to what’s called an ADRC, and it’s called an Aging and Disability Resource Center.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

He directed the patients to seek local help. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. centers study rare vaccine reactions. His clinical study was ending. Kennedy Jr. forced him out in May.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

FDA Law

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. He states, correctly, that PDUFA user fees make up about 75% of the budget for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). In the meantime, this belief was followed for centuries by doctors, to the detriment of countless patients. To some degree.