A proposal to provide care to the uninsured through a network of community health centers.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
; 4(3): 272-9; discussion 280-6, 1993.
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| ID: mdl-8353219
While a national health insurance plan is needed, this alone will not provide access for approximately 30 million persons who face geographic, cultural, language, or health care system barriers, or who live in areas with provider shortages. These barriers often coexist with lack of insurance coverage, but they also affect millions who have public, or even private, coverage. Moreover, large segments of this population suffer from health problems not adequately addressed by the traditional medical model: teenage pregnancy, AIDS, injury, substance abuse, and the like. To provide appropriate care for these underserved persons, we propose to expand the existing network of community health centers over the next 10 years to a total of approximately 3,000. Such an expansion would provide a cost-effective approach to improving provider distribution, increasing consumer input, combining personal health services with health promotion, and removing both financial and nonfinancial barriers to care. This model can be implemented either independent of or in conjunction with other health care system reform efforts.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Indigencia Médica
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Centros Comunitarios de Salud
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Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud
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National Health Insurance, United States
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Health Care Poor Underserved
Asunto de la revista:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
1993
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos