In publications which have compared the health expenditure in the component parts of the United Kingdom by applying the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP) formula to the health budget of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland it has been previously concluded that Scotland's hospital and community health services expenditure is more than 19% above what would be a fair distribution....

OBJECTIVES In 2008 and 2013, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers surveyed community health center (CHC) primary care physicians (PCPs) to identify factors related to preparedness, recruitment and retention. The survey was repeated to determine the impact of Massachusetts health care reform. METHODS An online survey was sent t...

The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to reinvent the health care delivery system to make it more accessible, patient-centered, and comprehensive, with an emphasis on prevention and primary care. This article explores how community health centers are well positioned to implement the Act's provisions, by expanding access to high-quality, affordable care to millions.

although the pathology and public health is recognized as the foundation of its existence to be long-lived human life. but according to the distribution and contact with social structures as a matter of developing countries are left behind in its place, according to their importance has not been. this is the birthplace of the fact that the disease has a special place in medicine introduces geog...

background: the performance of the community health nurse depends on a combination of scientific and practical competencies acquired by educational experiences during the nursing course. curriculum planners of nursing education need to understand nursing education to train professional and community-oriented nurses. the aim of this article is to explore the experiences of nursing students durin...

background: health care systems in rural areas face numerous challenges in meeting the community’s needs and adequate attention has not been paid to this problem. the aim of this study was to describe the outcomes of health care process in rural society. materials and methods: twenty-six participants including twenty-one rural health care providers and five clients were selected according to pu...

BACKGROUND In order to address several health challenges, the Chinese government issued the National Essential Public Health Services Package (NEPHSP) in 2009. In China's large cities, the lack of funding for community health centers and consequent lack of comprehensive services and high quality care has become a major challenge. However, no study has been carried out to estimate the cost of de...

BACKGROUND Leaders and policymakers need an accurate appraisal of the federally qualified community health center (CHC) quality improvement (QI) literature to make informed decisions for the CHC program. OBJECTIVES This paper aims to (1) summarize the content and findings of CHC QI studies to date, (2) systematically rate the quality of those studies, and (3) outline 10 important areas for fu...

Background Community health workers play an important role in delivering health-care services, especially to underserved populations in low- and middle-income countries. They have been shown to be successful in providing a range of preventive, promotive and curative services. This qualitative study investigated the factors motivating or demotivating community health workers in urban settings in...