Recruiting, Educating, and Taking Primary Care to Rural Communities

Brief approaches to educating patients and parents in primary care.

PURPOSE Pediatricians are encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Bright Futures guidelines to use well-child care as an opportunity to promote learning and development, encourage positive parenting practices, help children acquire behavioral self-control, and enhance the well-being of children and their families. Such counseling can consume considerable provider time. In an era of...

Educating primary care clinicians about health disparities

Racial and ethnic health disparities inarguably exist in the United States. It is important to educate primary care clinicians regarding this topic because they have the ability to have an impact in the reduction of health disparities. This article presents the evidence that disparities exist, how clinicians contribute to these disparities, and what primary care clinicians can do to reduce disp...

Recruiting regional primary care leads for cancer care ontario.

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is a provincial agency responsible for improving cancer outcomes in Ontario. With funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, CCO plans and delivers cancer programs in partnership with 13 Regional Cancer Programs across the province. Over the past decade, CCO’s Clinical Programs group has worked with clinicians in the Regional Cancer Programs to improve the...

Communities and primary care reform.

Measuring the attractiveness of rural communities in accounting for differences of rural primary care workforce supply.

INTRODUCTION Many rural communities continue to experience an undersupply of primary care doctor services. While key professional factors relating to difficulties of recruitment and retention of rural primary care doctors are widely identified, less attention has been given to the role of community and place aspects on supply. Place-related attributes contribute to a community's overall amenity...