Three separate policy themes have been identified as important for the future development of effective health care in the United Kingdom. These are a focus on the extended primary care team as the prime means of healthcare delivery, improved keeping of patients’ records and communication between professionals, and greater recognition of consumers’ wishes for good quality, well coordinated care....

Patient satisfaction is a goal of effective health care delivery and its assessment is important to the improvement of health care, especially in the context of a more consumerist culture. Patient education and information has been shown to improve patient satisfaction with care. Lack of sufficient patient information (specifically related to post-discharge care) was identified in our patient p...

Healthy Steps over Telemedicine uses telemedicine technology to bring child development services to adolescent parents in an urban school district. Videoconferencing units link teen parents at a Kansas City high school to developmental specialists and physicians at the Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC). Program participants receive developmental services and valuable health care informati...

Key Findings. (1) The Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) demonstration project provided expanded emergency services and extended clinic stays to remote rural communities. (2) Although the FESC demonstration ended this year, the FESC model may be appropriate in rural communities other than the five original demonstration sites. (3) FESCs may also be alternatives to very low-volume rural hospit...

The study used a questionnaire to assess the delivery of veterinary services as perceived by users in four peri-urban areas in Ghana. Eight hundred and eighty nine respondents were interviewed: 10.7% were cattle farmers, 27.4% were small ruminant farmers, 14.2% were pig farmers, 45.1% were poultry farmers and 2.6% reared various animals on a part-time basis. Most of the animal health needs were...

There is great allure in the concept of using qualified health care providers to assist radiologists and radiation oncologists, increasing efficiency and possibly even improving patient care delivery. However, physician services are most commonly reimbursed under a system that is resource based, and the physician work and practice expense components of reimbursement for existing procedure codes...

The formal study of intercultural communication is generally associated with the publication of Edward Hall’s “The Silent Language” in 1959, where the author showed how culture is critical to understanding intercultural communication. After millennia of research, intercultural communication challenges today are global and by that it is meant that intercultural communication is present in every ...

UCSF Center for Health and Community [2] The Center for Health and Community at UCSF (CHC) was established to assess the challenges of the changing health care delivery environment and identify policies and interventions that will maximize the beneficial impact of the changing health care delivery system. Under the leadership of CHC, scientists, clinicians and policy analysts collaborate throug...

This article reports on research into the changing role of generalist community nurses in Victoria during the 1990's. It provides an analysis of the implications of current policy trends and presents an overview of current practice and trends in contemporary health care delivery in the community. It discusses a vision for community nursing inspired by interviews with generalist community nurses...