Examining critical health policy issues within and beyond the clinical encounter: patient-provider relationships and help-seeking behaviors.
J Health Soc Behav
; 51 Suppl: S80-93, 2010.
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| ID: mdl-20943585
Among notable issues in health care policy and practice over the past 50 years have been those centered on the changing dynamics in clinical encounters, predominantly the relationship between physicians and patients and access to health care. Patient roles have become more active, diverse, long-term, and risk-based, while patient-provider relationships are multifaceted, less paternalistic, and more pivotal to health outcomes. Extensive literatures on help-seeking show how much social influences affect both undertreatment and inappropriate high utilization of health care. The challenge in trying to contain the growth of health care costs is two-fold: developing better ways of defining need for care and promoting better access for those who could benefit most from health care. Both of these strategies need to be considered in the context of addressing racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and health status disparities. Rebuilding the primary care sector as a sociologically informed strategy and a key component of health care reform may optimize both health care delivery and patient outcomes.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Relaciones Médico-Paciente
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Aceptación de la Atención de Salud
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Política de Salud
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
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Patient_preference
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Health Soc Behav
Año:
2010
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos