How high a priority is health care?

We must make rural health care a high priority.

Make care coordination a high priority

• identify patients in greatest need of proactive, coordinated care (#2); • train more primary care physicians and geriatricians (#3); • facilitate communication between providers (#4); • engage patients in decisions about their care (#5); • provide better support for caregivers (#6); • redesign funding mechanisms to meet patients’ needs (#7); • integrate health and social services, and physica...

Maternity Care: A Priority for Health Care Reform

Introduction Citizens for Midwifery, a consumer-based organization focusing on maternity care with a deep commitment to practical, health-improving changes in our health care system, is especially aware of the fundamental role of maternity care in the long-term health of mothers, babies and families. We present specific and practical suggestions below. We would like to see the Obama-Biden admin...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Clean Care is Safer Care: a worldwide priority.

At any time, over 1.4 million people worldwide are suffering from infections acquired in hospitals.1 Between 5-10% of patients admitted to modern hospitals in developed countries acquire one or more infections; 15-40% of those admitted to critical care are affected.2 The risk is two to 20 times higher in developing than in developed countries. The burden of disease outside hospital is practical...