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Home Research Research Library Uniting Public Health and Primary Care for Healthy Communities in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond Uniting Public Health and Primary Care for Healthy Communities in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond 2021 Author(s) Westfall, John M, Liaw, Winston R, Griswold, Kim, Stange, Kurt C, Green, Larry A, Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, Jaén, Carlos Roberto, Hughes, Lauren S, DeVoe, Jennifer E, Gullett, Heidi, Puffer, James C, and Gotler, Robin S Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Payment, Population Health, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has laid bare the dis-integrated health care system in the United States. Decades of inattention and dwindling support for public health, coupled with declining access to primary care medical services have left many vulnerable communities without adequate COVID-19 response and recovery capacity. “Health is a Community Affair” is a 1966 effort to build and deploy local communities of solution that align public health, primary care, and community organizations to identify health care problem sheds, and activate local asset sheds. After decades of independent effort, the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to reunite and align the shared goals of public health and primary care. Imagine how different things might look if we had widely implemented the recommendations from the 1966 report? The ideas and concepts laid out in “Health is a Community Affair” still offer a COVID-19 response and recovery approach. By bringing public health and primary care together in community now, a future that includes a shared vision and combined effort may emerge. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2013 Unequal Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce Go to Unequal Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce 2022 Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review Go to Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review 2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians 2014 Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments Go to Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments
Author(s) Westfall, John M, Liaw, Winston R, Griswold, Kim, Stange, Kurt C, Green, Larry A, Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, Jaén, Carlos Roberto, Hughes, Lauren S, DeVoe, Jennifer E, Gullett, Heidi, Puffer, James C, and Gotler, Robin S Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Payment, Population Health, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2013 Unequal Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce Go to Unequal Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce 2022 Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review Go to Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review 2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians 2014 Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments Go to Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments
2013 Unequal Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce Go to Unequal Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce
2022 Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review Go to Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review
2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians
2014 Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments Go to Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments
