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Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health Care (Quality Chasm)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.104257
EAN: 9780309094399
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0309094399
Label: National Academies Press
Manufacturer: National Academies Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: March 24, 2005
Publisher: National Academies Press
Studio: National Academies Press
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(National Institute of Medicine) Presents data which fulfills the six aims set forth in the 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, 1st edition. Assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for a core set of services. DNLM: Rural Health Services--trends--United States.
Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities. Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20 % of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face. Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends:
- Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needs
- Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals
- Enhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health care
- Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable
- Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure It is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.
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