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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 2021 One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017-2019 Go to One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017-2019 2021 Towards a Quality Agenda for Family Medicine Go to Towards a Quality Agenda for Family Medicine 2014 Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care Go to Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care 2016 “Community vital signs”: incorporating geocoded social determinants into electronic records to promote patient and population health Go to “Community vital signs”: incorporating geocoded social determinants into electronic records to promote patient and population health
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 2021 One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017-2019 Go to One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017-2019 2021 Towards a Quality Agenda for Family Medicine Go to Towards a Quality Agenda for Family Medicine 2014 Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care Go to Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care 2016 “Community vital signs”: incorporating geocoded social determinants into electronic records to promote patient and population health Go to “Community vital signs”: incorporating geocoded social determinants into electronic records to promote patient and population health
2021 One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017-2019 Go to One-Third of Family Physicians Remain in Independently Owned Practice, 2017-2019
2014 Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care Go to Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care
2016 “Community vital signs”: incorporating geocoded social determinants into electronic records to promote patient and population health Go to “Community vital signs”: incorporating geocoded social determinants into electronic records to promote patient and population health
