This report contains information from the Health Policy Summit, held in conjunction with the Fifth Annual Primary Care Conference and the Tenth Annual HeLa Women's Health Conference. During the Summit's presentation, the Honorable Newt Gingrich offered key elements of his "Vision for a 21st Century Medicaid Solution." The vision focuses on developing a "21st Century Responsible Citizen Medicaid...

BACKGROUND Implementing change in primary care is difficult, and little practical guidance is available to assist small primary care practices. Methods to structure care and develop new roles are often needed to implement an evidence-based practice that improves care. This study explored the process of change used to implement clinical guidelines for primary and secondary prevention of cardiova...

DESCRIPTION Update of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on screening for impaired visual acuity in older adults. METHODS The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on screening for visual acuity impairment associated with uncorrected refractive error, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration among adults 65 years or older in the primary care setting; the benefits and ...

The plan for the NHS in Scotland mapped out in the white paper Designed to Care shares common values and goals with the plans for England and Wales. The organisational structures proposed to underpin Scotland’s strategy for the health service (box) are, however, substantively different from those proposed for England and Wales. Primary care trusts are new statutory organisations scheduled to go...

Title VII funding played an important role in the development of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM). These funds enabled the 90% tuition-funded school to implement a primary-care-based curriculum in its formative years and played a crucial role in the 1995-2005 period of curriculum revision. UNECOM successfully competed for Title VII program funding in Physic...

Multimorbidity is increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems globally with substantial implications for patient outcomes and resource cost. A critical knowledge gap exists as to the magnitude of multimorbidity in primary care practice in low and middle income countries with available information limited to prevalence. In India, primary care forms the bulk of the health care delivery...

OBJECTIVES Visual disorders among preschool-aged children are common, yet screening is infrequent. The purpose of this project was to implement the vision screening recommendations proposed by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and National Eye Institute Vision Screening in the Preschool Child Task Force: monocular visual acuity and stereopsis testing. METHODS Four sites fully participated ...

results local level of primary health care system in iran had mechanical structure, but in contextual dimensions the results showed different types. there was a significant relationship between structural and contextual dimensions (r = 0.642, p value < 0.001). goals and culture dimensions had strongest effects on structural dimensions. background in recent years, family physician plan was estab...

BACKGROUND Greece is hit hard by the state debt crisis. This calls for comprehensive reforms to restore sustainable and balanced growth. Healthcare is one of the public sectors needing reform. The European Union (EU) Task Force for Greece asked the authors to assess the situation of primary care and to make recommendations for reform. Primary healthcare is especially relevant in that it might i...